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Nehan and Zen’s Great Death

Feb 16, 2024
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Updated: Jan 12, 2025

After the Nehan ceremony, which commemorates the Buddha’s passing into “Parinirvana” or the final unbinding, Seido explores the relationship with death as a powerful teacher, and the way Zen points to the everyday death, dying to the separate ego self while still alive.



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