{"id":3030,"date":"2025-07-29T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kazu-yamagu.com\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:38:54","slug":"post-3030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kazu-yamagu.com\/?p=3030","title":{"rendered":"Japan – Discovering Zen Words – Today’s Best Word is “\u904a\u622f\u4e09\u6627 Yugesanmai”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zen is hard. And Zen words? Even harder.
So I go ahead and make up my own meanings\u2014and I like them just fine.I like to think that Master Huineng, D\u014dgen, Ikky\u016b, and Ry\u014dkan would nod gently and say, \u201cThat’s fine. That’s fine. Let it be, my friend.\u201d
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Today, I choose “\u904a\u622f\u4e09\u6627Yuge-Zanmai”\u3000It means that a state of freedom and mindlessness, unconstrained by anything.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Yugesanmai is the words of Mumon Ekai<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

t\u2019s spelled yuugi\uff08\u904a\u622f\uff09 but read yuge.Not the kind of “play” kids do in a sandbox. No, this is something the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas enjoy various times. moving through time, dancing lightly with the moment,\u3000not for fun, but from joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samadhi, that\u2019s the second part\u2014being so immersed in something that the edges blur and time gets soft.Put them together: Yuge-Zanmai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A state of being where you welcome both the good and the bad,and let yourself melt into it all\u2014like tea leaves in warm water.The sky today is just the right kind of blue.The wind is soft.The pond has lotus blossoms like floating thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All you hear are leaves rustling, birds calling, insects singing\u2014
nature playing its old song.I imagine a Bodhisattva strolling by the water\u2019s edge,while the Buddha sits quietly beneath the Bodhi tree,not saying anything, not needing to.Time slows down.This might just be what Yuge-Zanmai looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Get the freedom at the shore of life and death, and go into the Rokudo Shisei to YugeZanmai
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“Yuge samadhi” is a word left in “Mumonkan” by the Zen monk Mumon Emon, who lived in the 12th century. Hui-mon practiced so hard that he would bang his head against a pillar to wake himself up, and vowed to throw himself into a fire if he did not attain enlightenment. He lived a life absorbed in training. Yet he left behind the phrase “Yuge samadhi.” This shows how difficult it is to reach that state. It is difficult for an ordinary person to approach a state that is difficult even for Zen monks to reach.<\/p>\n\n\n

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People are concerned about many things.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

He lived a life absorbed in training. Yet he left behind the phrase “Yuge samadhi.” This shows how difficult it is to reach that state. It is difficult for an ordinary person to approach a state that is difficult even for Zen monks to reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days, society is overflowing with samadhi\u2014or at least, things pretending to be.There’s book samadhi, hobby samadhi, fishing samadhi, even sushi samadhi.But here\u2019s the truth: real samadhi? It\u2019s harder than it sounds.Unless you’re truly starving, no one eats sushi with a clear, empty mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the guy who’s \u201cimmersed in work\u201d is probably juggling twelve tabs in his head.a swirl of unpaid bills, missed calls, and that weird thing someone said in a meeting last Tuesday.Still, we ordinary folks like to think it’s easy to lose ourselves in what we love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then you’re out fishing\u2014just you, the sea, and the rhythm of the waves.and suddenly you remember that bill due tomorrow.Instead of waiting until you\u2019re home,you\u2019re squatting on a rock trying to do a wire transfer on bad signal.And when the app crashes?So much for fishing zen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At work, your mind keeps drifting back to a little argument with your wife.She was talking. You weren\u2019t listening.\u201cYou never listen,\u201d she said, and you both knew the script from there.You were wrong, but couldn\u2019t say sorry in the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you want to patch things up,but she\u2019s not reading your messages,and the silence is louder than your inbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That transfer can wait until tomorrow.Better to finish your work, breathe a little deeper,and come home lighter, more ready to say what matters.Because sometimes, focusing on this moment\u2014fishing, working, or even listening\u2014ends up being the best thing you can do for the next one.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Let’s concentrate now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In his book The Smartphone Brain, Anders Hansen reminds us that humans have survived for thousands of years by overreacting.A rustle in the grass? Could be a lion. Better to run and be wrong than stay and be eaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re wired to be distracted.Even when things are going well, we worry about what might go wrong.It\u2019s not a flaw\u2014it\u2019s biology.But knowing that? That\u2019s the trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you understand it, you can learn not to follow every little worry down the rabbit hole.You can choose\u2014just sometimes\u2014to focus.To be fully where you are.That\u2019s the heart of Yuge-Zanmai:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoying the moment with all of yourself\u2014whether the moment is beautiful, boring, or a complete mess.So next time your mind starts drifting away back to yesterday\u2019s mistake or forward to tomorrow\u2019s invoice\u2014remember this ancient phrase:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuge-Zanmai.And maybe, just maybe, you can come back to now.<\/p>\n\n\n

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