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Living by Vow: A Practical Introduction to Eight Essential Zen Chants and Texts
By Shohaku Okumura
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All aspects of our practice—zazen in the monks’ hall, chanting of verses and sutras during services, ceremonies in the Dharma hall—and all our other activities in daily life are the practice of the bodhisattva vow actualized moment by moment. We chant these verses and sutras as an expression of this interpenetrating reality