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It is much easier to be at peace with a disaster or war on the other side of the world … … than with the little troubles in one’s own home or family. The people we are closest to, and most emotionally involved with, can certainly push our buttons sometimes … even after years of…

You are already perfectly you, and life is already perfectly life … … but it’s not a matter of merely saying so. _____________________________ ALL BUDDHA-TATHAGATAS TOGETHERhave been simply transmitting wondrous dharma and actualizing anuttara samjaksambodhi [supreme perfect enlightenment] for which there is an unsurpassable,unfabricated, wondrous method. This wondrous dharma, which has been transmittedonly from buddha…

Continuing with Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo Bendowa … I would like to talk a bit more about Jijuyu zanmai, "the samadhi, the still abiding taste of the self in self-fulfillment"  ... ...  by this the self both drops away and is affirmed and fulfilled in that moment. All is complete. Uchiyama Roshi's translation is that one…

We begin our series of talks on Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo Bendowa … anuttara samjak sambodhi … means “supreme, incomparable, unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment” Most think of Zazen as a means to reach and attain some sought after enlightenment, somewhere down the road. But Master Dogen expressed the very sitting of Zazen as the realization of…
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