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What is concentration? What is zanshin?

Master Kosen – Published on April 1 – teaching

Question

What is concentration? What is zanshin?




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Answer from Master Kosen

Concentration is subject and object unified. Zanshin is a Japanese expression meaning beyond personal or conscious capacities.
Zanshin, the mind that remains: a little something beyond the beginning and end of an action.

Kosen


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