{"id":615,"date":"2009-03-20T10:21:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T10:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/03\/dropping-away-body-and-mind.html"},"modified":"2009-03-20T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T10:21:50","slug":"dropping-away-body-and-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/03\/dropping-away-body-and-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"Dropping Away Body and Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font style=\"font-size: 1.25em;\">(BENDOWA XII)<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">According to Master Dogen&#8217;s account of his time in China, one         morning his teacher Ju-Ching found a monk dozing during Zazen. Dogen heard his teacher scold the sleeping monk, &#8220;<i>The practice of zazen is the dropping         away of body and mind. 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