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The Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo Eihei Dogen
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It meditation in the Zen tradition; it's shikantaza––“just sitting.” This is from the Shobogenzo of Dogen zen-ji (5–10): One day Ejo asked, “What should we diligently practice in the monastery?” Dogen instructed,. But then, Okumura may go too far when he attributes the same view to Dōgen: “People often ask me, 'What is the Sōtō Zen view of rebirth?' This is a difficult question because Dōgen Zenji, I believe, advocates 'not knowing' in this case.” Did Dōgen really recommend not-knowing in this case? I think because a lot of the Posts on Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Nishijima & Cross translation) are a preliminary non-definitive set of notes as I make my way through and are best viewed as a mark that I have passed this way. SHIN means heart or it is very likely that the common concept of beginner's mind will be emphasized to you. But if you read Master Dogen's Shobogenzo in detail, you will find that Master Dogen emphasizes another concept altogether and that is HOTSU-BODAI-SHIN. In May 2011, Joan Halifax organized a Dogen weekend at Upaya Zen Center to celebrate Kaz Tanahashi's ten-year work of translating and publishing the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo. Natalie will be co-leading the Dogen Symposium at Upaya Zen Center in July 2012 — for more information about Upaya's Dogen Symposium, click here: http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=770 . Those who know understand that to be pure means to be completely adaptable, to flow with each moment, to be like a running stream . Deep in the heart of a silent child. The Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo. €�To cast off body In 1233 he moved into Kannon- doriin temple, which was expanded over the next ten years, and wrote 44 more chapters of the Shobogenzo and took on Ejo as a disciple, who helped with the administration of the temple and its development. The remark shook Dogen to his core and he experienced an inexpressible ecstatic joy that engulfed his heart and Ju-ching acknowledged the authenticity of Dogen's enlightenment experience. A lot of the chants at my Zen Center refer to various dualities, including both Master Hakuin's Chant and Heart of Perfect Wisdom, form vs no-form, thought vs no-thought, form is emptiness and emptiness is form, for example. Realizing Genjōkōan: The Key to Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō, Wisdom: Somerville, MA. What He Wrote and When He Wrote It. Mary was chosen to bear Jesus because she kept her purity intact. All the quotations in today's posting are taken from Nishijima and Cross' translation of the Shobogenzo, Dogen Sangha press, book 3, chapter 65, "Ryugin-The moaning of Dragons." And, as usual, I recommend Here Dogen connects the idea of the movement of energy within the body directly to the octave--specifically, to what we would call the development of the octave up through the first conscious shock, to the point where it meets five, or, the heart. In my answer, I will point you directly to the heart of the difference between the true teaching of Master Dogen and so-called Soto Zen. If he was pressed a bit on the subject, Nishijima would quote something or other Dogen wrote about chanting that indicated his preference for zazen. Waddell, Norman and Abe, Masao. Beginner's mind in Japanese is SHO-SHIN. The sources are Shasta Abbey's translations of Dogen's Shobogenzo and the original Major Writings of Nichiren Daishonin published under the aegis of the Soka Gakkai: Dogen, Soku Shin ze Butsu,.