Dogen

A collection of 47 posts

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Katagiri Roshi

What Are You Figuring To Do, Sitting There In Zen?

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Zazen

Fixedly Questioning Fixed Sitting

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"How Much Zazen Should I Do?"

No offense intended, but from what we've seen, probably a lot more than you are now doing.

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On Using the Past as a Model for the Present

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Wasting Time Under the Bright Window

One of the secrets that's necessary for calming fully and awakening completely.

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Dogen's Wall-Gazing Liberates Beings

"[... By] the straightforward abandonment of skillful means and the exclusive proclamation of the supreme Buddha Way." - Zhiyi from his commentary on "The Lotus Sutra"

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Cultivating Verification: A New Shushogi for Today

"The endeavor to negotiate the Way, as I teach now, consists in discerning all things in view of enlightenment, and putting such a unitive awareness into practice in the midst of the revaluated world." - Dogen

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Focus on Just One Thing

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The Single Most Important Thing to Keep in Mind When Studying Dogen Zenji

He was more blissfully awake than us.

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Turning the light around

Linji Turns the Light

Turning the light around

How Can We Carry the Jewel Close to Our Heart?

If you are not clear about this, turn the light around to illuminate, and then you'll know with great relief that the luminous jewel is what you are.

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The Platform Sutra

What is Awakening? Wandering Playfully in Samadhi

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Renunciation Day: The Dreamlike Illusion is a Sham

To practice Zen deeply a person must swim up the cultural stream.

Koan

What Is Zazen? Dōgen's Koan Realized

"It is the kōan realized."

Record of Going Easy

Is Just Sitting Facing a Wall Enough?

This way they’ll go on until the year of the ass....

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Koan

A Fire Child Comes Seeking Fire: Understanding or Awakening?

Platform Sutra

Problems With The Platform Sutra: Dogen

...if you have a problem with the buddhadharma and don't even consider the possibility that it might be your personal problem, you really aren't in that moment studying the buddhadharma.

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Sesshin

Song of the Dragon Sesshin

Zhiyi Featured

Three Big Sublime Stopping Mistakes

... denial that stopping is possible, the exaggerated concern about attachment to stopping, and confusing stopping with seeing.

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Ten Line Kannon

Transferring the Merit: The Essence of Great Vehicle Great Compassion

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Gifts for the Seven Wise Sisters from a Couple Brothers with the Same Mother

Hakuin Zenji emphasizes the importance of dharma expression to benefit living beings, especially by offering poison words that disrupt delusions and allow the pure wind of wild awakening to blow forth.

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The Difference Between Soto and Rinzai

Dahui

Plucking a Blade of Grass: The Wondrous Dharma of Miàodào

Below you will find a dharma talk by an incredible (and largely unknown) Zen master, Miàodào Dǐngguāng (1095-1170), one of only three women Zen masters listed in Outline of the Linked Flames, a transmission of illumination collection published in 1183. Miàodào had been a student of the Cáodòng (J. Sōtō)

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Dogen’s Instruction for Householder Zen Training

(Eihei kōroku V8.14) Translated with introduction and notes by Dōshō Port Introduction Because this Dōgen dharma discourse (hōgo) was written for householders, includes examples of awakened householders, and offers instructions for householders, I've long been curious about it. After all, 99% or so of those engaged in

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Do Not Get Close To Such People (EK8.14.7)