| This theory preached that the essence of zazen was for one to keep just sitting in silence, being isolated from any ordinary discretion or consideration, until his or her own nature would appear in an image of Buddha so that he or she might obtain Buddhist virtue. |
これによれば、坐禅の要諦は一切の思慮分別を断絶してただ黙々と坐することによって人が持つ仏としての心性があらわれ、仏徳がそなわるところにあるという。 |