Let’s look some more right in the eyes of our ‘Original Face’ …

You should therefore cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
– Master Dogen’s Fukanzazengi

Thus/ emp/ti/ness/ is/ not/ form/;
not/ sen/sa/tion/ nor/ per/cep/tion/,
not/ for/ma/tion/ nor/ con/scious/ness/.

No/ eye/, ear/, nose/, tongue/, bo/dy/, mind/; No/ sight/, sound/, smell/, taste/, touch/, nor/ ob/ject/ of/ mind/; No/ realm/ of/ sight/, no/ realm/ of/ con/scious/ness/



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