Flower’s Song, Dogen
Dogen
Haru kaze ni Waga koto no ha no Chirinuru o Hana no uta to ya Hito no nagamen. **** Will their gaze fall upon The petals of words I utter,
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Rohatsu Sesshin Talk 5 of 6: A Guide to the Museum Called “Me” (Part 2)
“… the gate of ease and joy …” ~ Dogen Description: This teisho is the fifth talk from the 2017 Rohatsu sesshin. (The fourth talk was a “silent teisho.”) Henry recaps the
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Teisho: The Circle of the Way
“… the point of all of this is to be of service, each in our own unique way …” Description: Henry begins by talking about a recent workshop at Mountain Cloud
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Teisho: A Map of Zen Training (Part 4) & Case 64, Book of Equanimity: Shuzan’s “Bride”
“… the most important thing about Zen training. It is the experiential discovery that we are not alone, we are not individual, we are not separate from anything …“ Zazen is the
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Guest Message: The Bodhisattva’s Joy of Offering by Sandy Chubb
…in the act of giving, one who gives and one who receives form a connection with each other… ~ Dogen This week, a message from Sandy Chubb, Zen Teacher at
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Given to a Zen Person
Mind itself is buddha. Practice is difficult. Explanation is not difficult. Not-mind. Not-buddha. Explanation is difficult. Practice is not difficult. ~ Dogen From Chinese-style poems, translated by Philip
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Teisho: Case 62, Book of Equanimity: Beiko’s “Enlightenment”
“… even satori disappears. There is no more consciousness of being enlightened. When you stand, there is just standing; when you sit, there is just sitting.” Enlightenment is gone—just this ...”
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Dogen: Colors of Mountains
Colors of the mountains, Streams in the valleys; One in all, all in one, The voice and body of Our Sakyamuni Buddha. ~ Dogen Text from The Zen Poetry
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From Dogen’s Echizen
For so long here without worldly attachments, I have renounced literature and writing; I may be a monk in a mountain temple, Yet still moved in seeing gorgeous blossoms Scattered
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Dogen: Fleeting Dharma
Everyone admires A graceful horse Galloping past the streaming sunlight, But few realize that this fleeting image Is itself the way of Dharma. ~ Dogen Text from The Zen Poetry
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True Seeing Received at Birth
Seeking the way Amid the deepest mountain paths The retreat I find None other than My primordial home: satori! ~ Dogen Text from The Zen Poetry of Dogen
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