{"id":3073,"date":"2023-02-08T01:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taozenlife.info\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2023-02-08T01:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:15:21","slug":"why-i-call-what-we-do-taozen-life-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taozenlife.info\/?p=3073","title":{"rendered":"Why I call what we do \u201cTaoZen Life Practice\u201d<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


What is the purpose of TaoZen Meditation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve been calling our practice \u201cTaoZen Life Practice\u201d for a long time. As you may remember, it consists of Meditation, Breathing Techniques, Qi Exercises (such as Taichi and Qigong, and Chi Nei Tsang), and Life Empowerments.
 
I\u2019ll explain these five petals of TaoZen in more detail another time. Today, I would like to talk about the purpose of our practice.
 
Someone like me can\u2019t really comprehend the real purpose of Meditation. It’s far too big and vast for me. But that\u2019s why it\u2019s worth doing every day with quiet passion.
 
Asking ourselves about the real purpose of Meditation is like asking what the real purpose of Love is. It is so big. That is why it\u2019s worth it.
 
But we need some tangible purpose to understand it in our daily life. For many years, I\u2019ve said we practice \u201cto live our life authentically\u201d and \u201cto be a life artist\u201c
 
With and through Meditation, I\u2019m trying to do that. I\u2019m trying to live my life as authentically as possible and be an artist of my life. The process doesn\u2019t have only one right way or one result. It\u2019s always a process of trial and error.
 
I came across Meditation and Taichi very early in my life. (I would like to talk more about that sometime too.) Back then, it was just for myself and my private practices and learnings. I wasn\u2019t interested in teaching or sharing with others, but I was pushed to teach and share. Through teaching, I realized that life is much better when sharing and practicing with others.
 
Without friends, life means very little. We need other people and nature to live. That\u2019s why I share the practice and have tried to create a TaoZen community.
 
Our purpose is not only to be good at Meditation, Taichi, or Chi Nei Tsang, but to live well with each person’s integrities. That\u2019s the reason I call what we do TaoZen Life Practice.

I believe to live well, or even to die well, we need good practices and friends.

~Masahiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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