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Welcome to Sanshin Source!
This is Sanshin Zen Community's library of context and in-depth information about our style of practice. Anyone is welcome to peruse and study our resources as our collection continues to grow. We've organized the content according to our practice vision diagram so that you can see the relationships between the elements. Intersecting these elements with each other gives interesting new insights into our practice. If you're looking for something specific, you might find our site map useful; you can see that below. Note that the main headings above are clickable pages, as well as the items in the dropdown menus. Sanshin Source is a partner site to our main site, where you'll find schedules and calendars, event registration, tools for giving, and information on our temple and sangha. What's new at Sanshin Source?
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A great many people are now practicing zazen in the Japanese Soto Zen Buddhist tradition outside Japan. But, because the tradition is so new in other lands, their practice may not always firmly based on a good understanding of the teaching. Before we begin practice, we need some clarity about what we are doing and why we are doing it that way. It is important to begin the practice with an understanding of the basic principles and underlying teaching behind what we will be doing. We need accurate background knowledge and a good understanding of ideas about the nature of zazen so that we can practice properly and skillfully. We should not start blindly. Otherwise our practice would likely go astray and get lost.
--Sotoshu, the official Soto Zen denomination
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