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In the Zen tradition, this is the time of the Rohatsu Sesshin. From the 1st to the 8th of December, thousands of practitioners around the world are sitting right now. It is the most vigorous retreat of the year.  This retreat remembers Shakyamuni, who is said to have sat for eight days and eight nights under the Bodhi tree until he woke up on the last morning, seeing the morning star. That moment of seeing clearly gave him the name Buddha, “the awakened one.” In the Christian