"True Nature" doesn't mean there's a False Nature, it means that there's a few things obscuring it, like greed, anger, and delusion. To cultivate our True Nature by eliminating these poisons from our habitual way of thinking, many techniques are used--seated and walking meditation, kongans, hwadu, chanting, and bowing to name just a few. Sometimes, techiques from outside the Zen tradition are used also. In Dae An's talk at One Mind Zen, he describes employing Lojong, the Tibetan method of using "slogans" similar to Hwadu in order to arouse the Body/Mind to its state of wisdom and compassion--its True Nature.
Image courtesy of Daniel Sharpenberg/The Tattooed Buddhist
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