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In my personal life I have never prayed because I have never had a religion or the need of such. Also I neither chant nor I do any sort affirmation about Buddhism with chanting. I think it is neither important nor necessary; but when I go to seshins we all chant; I have to do that in order to practice Zazen with the Roshi so respectfully I do that at the dojo. There is no problem for me... in some way chants are a way we all start to settle the mind; when there is group meditation this is very important but they have no other meaning than just that. As we learn to settle the mind, because of the practice of meditation, in daily life, chanting becomes unnecessary and useless at all.