Culture

is created and conserved by cultivation of body/mind/world. As Zen, of all Zazen, has been practiced by the Buddha and Buddhists, cultivation is the crucial core of Buddhism (cf. Striving, and the Fourfold Application/Effort). Bhāvanā (cultivation) is the causative form (cause to become) of bhava (becoming, caused by karma), intentionally made, first to still karma, and cultivate it to the better-best. Cultivation enable us to verify its results. Zazen is the unique practice of cultivation itself becoming verification (witnessing nirvana/awakening). Dogen said that cultivation itself is the verification.