Most zen Buddhists don't do Martial Arts, but small groups do. The Sholin monks and Shorinji Kempo to name few...
The Japanese tea ceremony is a zen experience. The practice of a martial art can also be a very zen type experience.
There are many, many legends involving the martial arts. One is that the Asian Martial Arts originated with an Indian prince who came to study Buddha, and ended up creating Kung Fu and Zen.
It is a temple in China that is 1500 years old. It is the birthplace of Zen Buddhism and kung fu Martial Arts.
The legend of the Eastern martial arts is that they originated in the temples of the Shoalin priests and were created by the Bodhidharma, the individual credited with really establishing Zen, to keep the priests in physical shape so they could understand what he was teaching. Many equate the mental focus required to do martial arts with the concentration required to meditate. Zen archery is probably the most intertwined of the two.
It is a temple in China that is 1500 years old. It is the birthplace of Zen Buddhism and kung fu martial arts.
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Zen Buddhists meditate in Temples.
Dancing is neither a traditional nor a common part of the practice of Zen Buddhists. Therefore, if they dance it is simply because they want to dance. .
because they are
Zen Buddhists do not have the conceept of prayer as they have no god to pray to. The process of askimng for direction from a deity or attempting to understand a deeper meaning is against the Zen process of non-intellectual acceptance of the world.
Zen Buddhists do not control their bodies or minds. The whole of Zen Buddhism is to attain an instantaneous and unthinking awareness of the whole of the situation and be one with it. This precludes "controlling" anything.
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