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'''Sufism''' is a [[Connection Practice]] that emerges from Islam and the Koran.  is zen meditation technique designed to still the mind and open [[Connection]].
'''Sufism''' is a [[Connection Practice]] that emerges from Islam and the Koran.
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"Zazen is the form of meditation at the very heart of Zen practice. In fact, Zen is known as the “meditation school” of Buddhism. Basically, zazen is the study of the self. The great Master Dogen said, “To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.” To be enlightened by the ten thousand things is to recognize the unity of the self and the ten thousand things. "<ref>“How To Meditate: Zazen Instructions.” Zen Mountain Monastery (blog), March 19, 2018. https://zmm.org/teachings-and-training/meditation-instructions/.</ref>
"...their fundamental tenets are, that nothing exists absolutely but GOD: that the human soul is an emanation from his essence, and, though divided for a time from its heavenly source, will be finally re-united with it; that the highest possible happiness will arise from its re-union, and that the chief good of mankind, in this transitory world, consists in as perfect a ''union'' with the Eternal Spirit as the incumbrances of a mortal frame will allow;that, for this purpose, they should break all ''connexion'' (or ''taalluk,as they call it), with extrinsic objects, and pass through life without ''attachments,'' as a swimmer in the ocean strikes freely without the impediment of clothes."  
 
<Ref>Sir William Jones, quoted in Ernst, Carl W. The Shambhala Guide to Sufism. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1997. https://amzn.to/2SoFmun. p. 9-10.</ref>
 
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Sufism is a Connection Practice that emerges from Islam and the Koran.


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Notes

"...their fundamental tenets are, that nothing exists absolutely but GOD: that the human soul is an emanation from his essence, and, though divided for a time from its heavenly source, will be finally re-united with it; that the highest possible happiness will arise from its re-union, and that the chief good of mankind, in this transitory world, consists in as perfect a union with the Eternal Spirit as the incumbrances of a mortal frame will allow;that, for this purpose, they should break all connexion (or taalluk,as they call it), with extrinsic objects, and pass through life without attachments, as a swimmer in the ocean strikes freely without the impediment of clothes." [1]

Footnotes

  1. Sir William Jones, quoted in Ernst, Carl W. The Shambhala Guide to Sufism. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1997. https://amzn.to/2SoFmun. p. 9-10.