The Third of the 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

[Shokai]

Gate Three
We review the Gates by reading the following, placing it in your heart and sleeping on it. Then, tomorrow, live and practice it until evening when you leave a brief comment as to how it affected you.

Delight is a gate of Dharma-illumination; for it is the mind of peace and tranquillity.

One method of exploring the Dharma Gates to deepen our practice is to research and study koans such as:

"Upon seeing the morning star, Gautama became Shakyamuni
Buddha when He was, is and will be awakened to His
TRUE SELF and said, says and will say, “I was, am and will
be enlightened, together with the whole of the great earth
and all its sentient beings, simultaneously.. "
-Master Keizan's Denkoroku/ Nearman ch. 1

Can you relate this to Gate #3

One poetic response to this question was:

Delight in the Buddha way
Is the wellspring of peace
As the waters of Mind
Flow clear and bright

Gassho, Shokai
stlah

[Jishin]

The Third of the 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination




Gassho, Jishin, ST, LAH

[Kaitan]

Self looking for the self
Hindered by itself
Freed by itself
What self?

Gasshō

stlah, Bernal

[Shokai]

Jishin; Is that a cedar tree I see beside the pond?

gassho, Shokai

[Seikan]

Good and Bad... Accepting both without reservations throughout my day, what difference is there?


delight in all things
and all things
become delightful


Gassho,
Seikan

-stlah-

[Risho]

Doing “mundane” activities
I vow with all sentient beings
to drop all separation
flowing with the mountains and rivers of life

gassho

risho
-stlah

[Jishin]

Jishin; Is that a cedar tree I see beside the pond?

gassho, Shokai

It had no name…until now. [emoji3]

[Tai Do]

It’s so easy to get pulled up by dukkha in our day that we forget to appreciate and delight in the simple reality of the ten thousand things. But Shakyamuni Buddha said that we, the Earth and all sentient beings are illuminated together with him, which reminds me of the Heart Sutra ending which is an expression of this delight and of being already gone to the other shore: Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate… Bodhi… svaha!
Gassho,
Tai Do
Satlah

[Koriki]

Twice in the koan it refers to past, present, and future tenses while delight is one of those sensations that we mostly only experience while being present. It's unlikely that we will experience enlightenment while thinking about our past or future, though an experience of enlightenment can occur in the past, present, and future.

Gassho,
Koriki

s@lah

[Shokai]

It had no name…until now.

[Tairin]

Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Nengei]

Getting a rush from this moment and place
Delighting in realization
And then dropping away.

Gassho,
Nengei
Sat today. LAH.

[Chikyou]

The koan's repetition of past, present and future tense reminds me that enlightenment is timeless.

Gassho,
SatLah
Kelly

[Risho]

A dog doesn’t have Buddha Nature
I don’t have Buddha Nature
We are Buddha Nature
woof, woof