Meaning
只管 (ひたすら, hitasura) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “intently; earnestly; solely”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 11
彼はひたすら努力しています
He is working hard single-mindedly.
彼はひたすら成功を望んで懸命に働く。
He works hard because he is anxious to succeed.
帰国の翌年には普勧坐禅儀を著し、只管打坐を専らとする宗風を鼓舞した。
In the following year after coming back, he wrote Fukanzazengi (the first book written by Dogen after coming back to Japan, where the importance of Zen meditation is emphasized) and promoted the tradition of the sect which focused on Shikantaza.
先ずは憧れの作家の文章の呼吸をつかむためにひたすら筆写、丸写しをする。
First, in order to get a feel for your favourite author's work, transcribe and copy in full.
日本の曹洞宗開祖である道元は只管打座（しかんたざ）、すなわちただひたすらに坐ることを重視した。
The priest Dogen, founder of the Soto Sect of Buddhism, emphasized the concept of 'shikantaza' which is a Japanese term for zazen and means just sitting.
そのために初心者向けの方便として只管打坐・修証一如こそが禅宗の極意であるということが言われる。
Therefore, as an easy way for a beginner, it is said that Shikantaza and shushoichinyo (practice is not for enlightenment, but they are combined and cannot be divided) are the secrets of the Zen sect.
坐禅の境地には上下なく、坐禅すれば等しく仏であるという喝も、只管打坐を奨励する一種の暗喩的方便である。
The katsu teaching that there is no high or low in the state of zazen and that all who practice zazen are equally Buddhas is also a kind of metaphorical expedient to encourage shikantaza.
管弦では只拍子（6拍子）で演奏される曲が舞楽になると夜多羅拍子（5拍子）となって変わってしまうものがいくつかある。
Some numbers played with the Tada-byoshi beat (sextuple measure) in Kangen music are changed to the Yatara-byoshi beat (quintuple measure) in Bugaku music.
さらにまた、ＲＶ車に乗ってアメリカ中をひたすら旅して、それまで忙しすぎてみることのできなかった地域を見て回る者もいる。
Still others simply travel around America in recreational vehicles, seeing parts of the country they had been too busy to see before.
曹洞宗の祖師である道元は、「只管打坐」の坐禅を成仏の実践法として宣揚しながらも、その理論的裏づけは、あくまでも法華経の教えの中に探し求めていこうとし続けた。
Dogen, the founder of the Soto school, while promoting the zazen of 'shikantaza' as a practical method for attaining buddhahood, continued to seek its theoretical foundation in the teachings of the Lotus Sutra.
しかし、ひとまず思考・議論・学習を止めよと教えても、なぜ止めねばならないかについて思考・議論・学習を始めてしまうような思考癖のある修行者にとって、只管打坐は至難の方法となる。
However, even after being taught to stop thinking, discussing and studying, Shikantaza is not an easy way for a practitioner of austerities who tends to start thinking, discussing and studying about the reason for them.