Matthew G. Robinson

An emerging bookbinder, food and beverage manager, occasional writer, and a patron of the arts.

Monday, January 19, 2026

TIL XV. Zen

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I failed Wordle (New York Times) today. The word was apparently ‘waxen’, which I had never heard of before, and while trying my hand at random combinations of letters on my last go it accepted ‘zazen’. TIL that while ‘zazen’ is usually translated as ‘zen mediation’ or ‘the position of being in a lotus position for meditation’ in the West, it is slightly more complex in Eastern spiritual tradition. It relates to the idea that the mind and body are one (as opposed to a dualist understanding that a person consists of their mind and their body) and as such are completely used up just by the act of sitting in the lotus position, or zazen.