Originally Posted by
Saijun
Hello,
I feel that ceremony/ritual is a good way to 'enter into the sacred' (for lack of a better term) while up and moving around, engaging in the daily world. In that respect, the chanting, bowing, has a purpose. However, I feel that if you have one mind for Zazenkai and another for making coffee in the mornings, you've missed the point. The ritual doesn't end when the candles are snuffed out. Each breath is a ritual, each embrace a ceremony. The sacred and the mundane are not separate unless one makes them separate.
In Gassho,
Saijun