Dogen · Theology
Dogen's great question - if all beings already have Buddha-nature, why practise? - and his answer: <em>shikantaza</em>, just sitting, in which practice and realization are one and zazen is not a means to awakening but its expression.
You learned that Dogen began from the question of why beings with Buddha-nature must practise, answered it with shikantaza (objectless, goalless sitting), taught shusho-itto (practice and realization are one), and therefore treated zazen not as a means to awakening but as its expression. Explain these ideas in your ow…
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