Word of the Day: Zazen

Zazen [zah-zen] –noun: Zen. Meditation in a prescribed, cross-legged posture.

Her date was a bantam and he was wily. At one moment he would be walking behind the waiters mimicking their gestures, and the next he would be sitting, zazen, in his chair sniffing the woman next to him.

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Word of the Day appears on weekdays and features words taken from books that Hugo House staff and volunteers are currently reading. This week’s series is brought to you by web site and blog intern, Abby Hagler, who has selected words from the pages of "What's Written on the Body" by Peter Pereira.

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