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Look What Came in the Post!
A welcome letter telling me what I’ve gotten myself into! A certificate! Everyone loves a stifiicate. The Precepts – I break most of them every day (except murder, but I’m working on it…) My Dharma...
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Emptiness Run Wild!
Chapter 89 of Shobogenzo is called “Shinjin-Inga” or “Deep Belief in Cause and Effect.” In this chapter we return to the Wild Fox koan that was mentioned in chapter 76. Wiki sums up the koan as...
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There’s no use in pretending what’s behind the curtain.
Chapter 93 of Shobogenzo is called “Doshin” or “The Will to Truth.” Can you believe we only have two chapters left to go? What will I do then? Something else. I suppose. According to Nishijima, Doshin...
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All things go, all things go.
Chapter 94 of Shobogenzo is called “Jukai” or “Taking the Precepts.” We’ve been here before of course, however, Dogen goes into detail about what taking the precepts actually involves. After taking...
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So, To Conclude….
“The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.” Summing up four years of work is hard. In this blog entry, I...
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