Members only Hokyo-ki Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: Are We All Buddhas Just the Way We Are—Or Not? In the passage from Hokyo-ki highlighted in this post, Rujing clearly says that unless we awaken we are not Buddhas. So much for the dogma of nonattainment.
Hokyo-ki Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: Immediately Extinguish the Flames from Your Head "With upright zazen, you return home and sit in peace."
Members only Hokyo-ki Featured Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: The Just-Sit Koan “Zazen is the body-mind dropped off—when it is single-minded zazen, free of the five desires, and rid of the five hindrances.”
Members only Hokyo-ki 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?
Members only Hokyo-ki Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: What Was Dogen Thinking? In which Dogen denies that karmic hindrances are empty.
Hokyo-ki Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: Obstructions or Picking and Choosing? "Taking a shower won’t fix your heart problems."
Hokyo-ki Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: The Five and Six Hindrances Rujing's kufu is what works in any dharma method to be free of any hindrance.
