[PWRichard]

It is curious how Zazen has both essences too; it handles them in a single moment. We do not separate meditation. We need to settle the mind so to develop clear view... mind settles as we start to focus in breath, posture, spacial environment... then after training breathing slowly comes a kind of forgetting breathing, the counting, and getting direct into, what I know now as fabrications, just letting them arise and fade. This skills sooner or later are brought out of the dojo into daily life...

If Samatha, then Vipassana; if there is Vipassana we have gotten Samatha.