- Sep 23, 2023
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Footnote

Behaviourally speaking there is a strong analogy here between the early eremitical insights and insistence of staying in one's cell and the teaching of Zen Buddhism on Zazen, or remaining in meditation. Jean LeClerc has an important essay entitled Sedere, or Sitting, in the volume Le Millenaire du Mont Athnos, 1963.

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