Dogen · Theology

The Genjokoan

Dogen's masterpiece on self and awakening: to study the Way is to study the self, and to study the self is to forget the self - with the moon in a dewdrop and firewood becoming ash as its great images of realization and time.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that the Genjokoan defines delusion as carrying the self toward things and realization as things coming forth to confirm the self, that to study the self is to forget the self, that awakening indwells a person without dividing them (the moon in a dewdrop), and that firewood and ash each abide in their own…

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