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I went today to a special exhibit at the National History Museum called ‘Let’s Zen’ … old temple stuff, statues, portraits of great masters …. (LOOK HERE)Let’s Zen … beautiful. But my practice is not really about that. Then I came out to the streets of Tokyo … loud, busy, colorful, crowded. … distracting. But…

.‘Genjo Koan‘ is also the title of one of the most famous sections of Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo. The phrase has been translated many ways. Nishijima Roshi rendered these words as “The Realized Universe.” Prof. Reiho Masunaga called it “the Koan expressed in daily life.” Shohaku Okamura Roshi wrote: My understanding of the title “Genjo-koan” is…

.Just sitting, in the universe as-it-is … untouched by restrictions, hindrances, obstructions or distractions … That means all obstructions of any kind, both humankind and nature’s beauty or ugliness. What is called sitting-Zen is not learning Zen meditation. It is just a peaceful and effortless gate to reality. It is practice-and-experience which perfectly realizes the…

.Zazen is perfect enlightenment, the Buddha’s enlightenment. Just sitting, in the universe itself … legs crossed and spine straight … untouched by restrictions, hindrances, obstructions or distractions … balance of body-mind … no ‘you’ to resist the world, no ‘world’ to be resisted … you are experiencing the Buddha’s enlightenment … … just the Buddha…
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