The 35th of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

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  • Shokai
    Treeleaf Priest
    • Mar 2009
    • 6392

    The 35th of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

    Gate Thirty-five
    Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.

    The non-arising of ill-will is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we protect ourselves and protect others...

    A “Dharma Gate” is a teaching or practice we can study to gain insights into the deepening our practice. It's a way to integrate our understanding of approaching reality.

    Koan:
    "Ordinary people are dragged around by their karmic conditioning. Looking at the world from their standpoint of their conditioned feelings and get on each other's nerves. That is why there isn't anything else left to do besides right now, in the midst of this karmic conditioning, freeing ourselves from this karma. When we remove for a moment the spectacles of our conditioned feelings, we recognize what Shakyamuni Buddha said upon his awakening; "The great earth and all its living beings attain the way in this very moment. Mountains and rivers, grasses and trees are without exception buddha nature." That means that in Shakyamuni's eyes not a single one of us is in illusion. We, all suffering beings, are the ones who insist so stubbornly on our illusions. Shakyamuni's compassion and the Buddha's teaching consist in awakening us to this fact."
    - To You, Zen Sayings of Kodo Sawaki, pg 181

    Most noteworthy replies :
    If I can find the Way
    To subdue Godzilla within,
    Then I protect against what malevolence brings
    to Myself.

    Fires of hatred
    Find no fuel
    In minds filled with love

    合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
    合掌,生開
    gassho, Shokai

    仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

    "Open to life in a benevolent way"

    https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
  • Tai Do
    Member
    • Jan 2019
    • 1431

    #2
    Angry thoughts come
    Angry thoughts go away
    The unmoved mind
    Expresses equanimity
    Kannon’s Compassion

    Gassho,
    Tai Do
    Satlah
    怠努 (Tai Do) - Lazy Effort
    (also known as Mateus )

    禅戒一如 (Zen Kai Ichi Nyo) - Zazen and the Precepts are One!

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    • Seikan
      Member
      • Apr 2020
      • 712

      #3
      the fires of malice
      are quenched with
      the waters of love


      Gassho,
      Seikan

      -stlah-


      Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
      聖簡 Seikan (Sacred Simplicity)

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      • Ramine
        Member
        • Jul 2023
        • 110

        #4

        Gassho,
        Ramine

        Satlah

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        • Tairin
          Member
          • Feb 2016
          • 2789

          #5


          Tairin
          Sat today and lah
          泰林 - Tai Rin - Peaceful Woods

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