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- noun A hall at a
Zen buddhistmonastery where formal seatedmeditation (zazen ) is practiced.
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Examples
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Consequently, while my workspace is rather large, it is also a zendo where work and practice are not separate.
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Maybe I should convert the entire dining room into a nice, spare, furniture-less zendo.
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I think many of us yesterday morning sat in front of our television sets and our computers watching the historical inauguration, and here at Upaya were many people in the zendo sitting in front of a huge screen watching the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama.
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Maybe I should convert the entire dining room into a nice, spare, furniture-less zendo.
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Consequently, while my workspace is rather large, it is also a zendo where work and practice are not separate.
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Speaking with the abbot, who had been raised as a Jew, he gestured at the many images of the Buddha, the statues and scrolls and shrines in the zendo, saying he could not worship idols.
Sacred Conflict 2009
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Maybe I should convert the entire dining room into a nice, spare, furniture-less zendo.
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One day, a samurai arrived at the master's mountain zendo.
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Last night, he came into the zendo with a DVD of Altered States to lend to one of his students.
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I mean what if you are sitting in the synagogue, or at the local zendo, and the rabbi or roshi or priest brings in a visiting spiritual celebrity with great fanfare and says, here is Reb Nusskopf, or Sensei someone or other, and he is going to do a special ceremony ...
Evan Derkacz: Witches, Fine... But Does Sarah Palin Believe in Religious Tolerance? 2008
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