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. Nothing to clean from the start, no washer to run … … Just sit Zazen, and the laundry’s done. 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 Buddha’s enlightenment. The Universe is realized, untouched by restrictions…

. Master Bodhidharma said of Zen: “A special transmission beyond Scriptures, Not depending on words or letters … “ So is there nothing worth study? No place for books and learning? Why should we master an ancient philosophy and arcane teachings ‘just to be’ now? Dogen says that Zazen is all that is required. Merely…

It’s late at night. Mina and the baby are asleep already. We are moving from our temporary house tomorrow back to the Treeleaf. Actually, we are moving our futons into the kitchen, because the rest of the house is pretty much torn apart … no floors in some rooms. We have a few bowls and…

A Demonstration of the Six Spiritual Powers195. Dharma Hall Discourse Dogen said: Do you want to see the power of extinguishing [attachments]?Dogen drew a single horizontal line [the character for ‘one’] with his whisk and said: Although this is so, ultimately, six times six is thirty-six.* * ‘Six times six is thirty-six’ is simple, like…
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