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Nanquan Beheads a Cat: Putting the Two Together with One Stroke of a Blade

“Difficult songs find few singers”

Dosho Port

17 Jun 2024 • 3 min read
Nanquan Beheads a Cat: Putting the Two Together with One Stroke of a Blade
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Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: The Interacting Communion of Appeal and Response
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Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: The Interacting Communion of Appeal and Response

And then there's the burning house of the whole human and nonhuman world. What can a practitioner do but to join palms and cry out, praying for the help of the Buddhas and Ancestors?
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Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: What Was Dogen Thinking?
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Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: What Was Dogen Thinking?

In which Dogen denies that karmic hindrances are empty.
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