Meaning
只 (ただ, tada) is a JLPT N2 vocabulary word meaning “free of charge,mere,sole,only,usual,common”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
この温泉はただです。
This hot spring bathhouse is free.
この新聞は只です。
This newspaper is free.
「これ只事に非ず。」
This is unusual.'
僕らは青春の真っ只中だ。
We are in the heyday of youth.
彼は混乱の真っ只中にあっても冷静だ。
He is cool amid confusion.
只今、僕は旅立ちの日に向けて修業中です。
Right now I'm training in preparation for the day we set off.
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.
只見町は福島県南会津地方にあり、急峻な山を隔てて新潟との県境に位置しています。
Tadami is in Minamiaizu in Fukushima; cut off by steep mountains and located on the prefecture border with Niigata.
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.