Theology
1200 to 1253 CE, Kyoto and Eiheiji, Japan
Just sitting, being-time, and the oneness of practice and awakening.
Start learning Dogen →Dogen's great question - if all beings already have Buddha-nature, why practise? - and his answer: shikantaza , just sitting, in which practice and realization are one and zazen is not a means to awakening but its expre…
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…
Dogen's most audacious teaching: time is not a container we move through - being is time. Mountains are time, oceans are time, the twelve hours of today are the whole of reality, and impermanence itself is Buddha-nature.
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