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Study Hall - Shobogenzo
Friday, March 25, 2011
'Face-to-Face Transmission', 'Menju', is a lot of fun; Dogen gets personal, both for himself, and with an ad hominem section in the postscript:

If you do not realize the fruit at this moment, when will you realize it?

If you do not cut off delusion at this moment, when will you cut off delusion?

If you do not become a buddha at this moment, when will you?

If you do not sit as a buddha at this moment, when will you practice as an active buddha?

Diligently examine this in detail...

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links / see also

• Shōbōgenzō (@Wikipedia)
• Dogen Zengi (@Shotoshu)
• Shobogenzo links (@"Hey Bro! Can You Spare Some Change?") (top of right column)

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"...Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass, or even in one drop of water..."

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• whats more: The Ino's Blog: Counting To Nine | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

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...what you receive with trust is your one verse or your one phrase. Do not try to understand eighty thousand verses or phrases...   ~ Dōgen Zenji

道元禅師
• Dōgen Zenji (also Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元, or Koso Joyo Daishi) (19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Kyōto, and the founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan after travelling to China and training under the Chinese Caodong lineage there. Dōgen is known for his extensive writing including the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma or Shōbōgenzō, a collection of ninety-five fascicles concerning Buddhist practice and enlightenment.

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Congo the most dangerous place on Earth for women - World - CBC News

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A rape victim and her son in the Congo town of Fizi. The woman, whose identity has been concealed for security reasons, was among nearly 50 women who were allegedly raped by Congolese soldiers on Jan. 1. Eleven soldiers are facing charges. (Pete Muller/Associated Press)

"The message is important and clear: Rape in (Congo) has metastasized amid a climate of impunity, and has emerged as one of the great human crises of our time," said Michael VanRooyen, the director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

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