Master Obaku, who was often seen bowing with great devotion, was asked by a disciple: ‘Are you seeking something of the Buddha, or seeking something concerned with the Truth?’ The Master replied: ‘I have nothing to ask of the Buddha or to seek about the Truth.’  ‘Then why do you worship?’ The Master said; ‘I simply worship.’

[The Wisdom of the Zen Masters by Irmgard Schloegl]

In this podcast:

•         A devotional practice is to practice the Six Paramitas

•         Different types of devotion - prayer, chanting sutras, bowing and prostrating, visiting temples and holy sites, pilgrimage.

•         Awareness of and invisible Principle beyond ‘I’.

•         Developing a sense of presence

•         Devotion to a Bodhisattva or particular Buddha

•         Communion and informing information of a spiritual principle