A practitioner who decides to dedicate him or herself to Zen does so by taking the Five Precepts in a ceremony with a Zen group.
The formal student–teacher relationship is reserved for those who are concerned with “the great question of birth and death,” have a genuine spiritual aspiration to come to awakening, are willing to exert themselves in their practice including retreat attendance, and feel a genuine rapport with the Guiding Teacher.
Jonson Sunmin Miller gives the Dharma talk at One Mind Zen on April 28, 2021.
