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(BENDOWA XXI) As the chain reaction brought about by Zazen continues, we see all the world … earth, grass and trees, stones, wind, water, fire, other sentient beings … aid the person who sits Zazen to exhibit realization and know the Buddha’s truth. In turn, the person who sits Zazen, rising from the Zafu and…

(BENDOWA XX) In this section of Bendowa, Master Dogen is using some powerful images to describe a kind of chain reaction brought about by Zazen … The person who sits Zazen “drops body and mind”, thus attaining, experiencing and understanding the natural and pure mind of a Buddha. At that point, the person also, in…

(for technical reasons, there will be no sitting broadcast today) This is something I preach from time to time, but I thought it worth saying again. Perhaps it is good to shout it clearly. Namely, in Buddhism, we have a strange attitude toward life and the universe … I would not call us “theists“. And…

(BENDOWA XIX) Last time we saw how a moment of Zazen –is–Buddha sitting, makes all the world right, just the way everything should be.   But it is not so simple as just saying that, for it must also work the other way … and one must actually get free of body and mind, dropping judgments…
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