Breath sweeps mind is the title of a series of talks on meditation by Zen master Jakusho Kwong-roshi. In the first talk he explains how he came to this title:
„Over twenty years ago…I drew my first Ensō. An Ensō is – you‘ve seen them before -one of these Zen circles…dipping the brush into the ink and feeling its texture, the thickness and thinness of the ink and as soon as you lift the brush off the ink pad, painting in the air with the tip of your brush and letting it rest on the rice paper and swiftly holding the point straight and making the circle. And after I finished it I decided to put these words inside the circle Breath sweeps mind. Unkowingly – my hand knew it and the brush knew it – but I didn‘t know what the meaning of that was exactly until over these many years I‘ve come to know it more thoroughly.“ Read More