How Keizan's Zen Differed from Rinzai Teachings?

The Zen Program from Widex

Increased levels of stress are more frequent in the hearing-impaired population than in normal-hearing people. Because of the high frequency of stress in the hearing-impaired population and the ability of music to reduce stress, Widex has included a feature in the high end mind440 hearing aid which allows users to listen to a choice of diff erent music styles. Generally researchers agree that m...

From the Teachings of Confucius to Western Influences: How Adult Education is Shaped in Taiwan

This article reports the results of a study designed to determine whether the teachings of Confucius (liberal and behavioral teaching approaches) or Western teaching approaches (humanistic, progressive, radical and analytic teaching approaches) shaped adult education in Taiwan. Thirty-nine randomly selected adult educators from three premium universities in Taipei responded to a survey about th...

Zen and Zen Buddhism: An Overview

Zen and Zen Buddhism have a long history. A consensus among Zen Buddhism practitioners and scholars is that Zen Buddhism began with Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism (Dumoulin 2005), who incorporated dhyana (i.e., a form of Zen meditation with Indian origins) into his training. As Zen meditation can be traced back to India prior to the time of Gautama Buddha, the history of Zen Buddhism a...

Zazen and cardiac variability.

OBJECTIVE This study examined the effects of "tanden breathing" by Zen practitioners on cardiac variability. Tanden breathing involves slow breathing into the lower abdomen. METHODS Eleven Zen practitioners, six Rinzai and five Soto, were each studied during 20 minutes of tanden breathing, preceded and followed by 5-minute periods of quiet sitting. During this time, we measured heart rate and...

Ancient teachings, modern lessons.