The Seventy-fifth Gate:
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.
Right view is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we attain the noble path on which the superfluous is exhausted.
A “Dharma Gate” is a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.
Koan:
From the beginning, it’s been clear that the highest rewards of Buddhism are experienced through a fundamental and radical shift in the way you understand the world and your place in it. Throughout time, and among different forms of Buddhism, this shift in understanding has been called different things, including awakening, enlightenment, Right View or Right Understanding, realization, satori, or kensho (a Japanese term which means “seeing one’s true nature”). What’s meant by this term, why is it so elusive, and how we can make the process of seeking less painful.
Most note worthy replies:
Right view refers to seeing the nature of reality correctly, including the Four Noble Truths, the Three Universal Characteristics, and the Law of Karma. When one has Right View, they understand that craving and attachment lead to suffering, and they begin to let go of their desires.
On the clearest days
No flowers, no weeds,
just plants
On the clearest days
The garden
Is relieved of weeds
gassho, Shokai
stlah
合掌,生開
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.
Right view is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we attain the noble path on which the superfluous is exhausted.
A “Dharma Gate” is a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.
Koan:
From the beginning, it’s been clear that the highest rewards of Buddhism are experienced through a fundamental and radical shift in the way you understand the world and your place in it. Throughout time, and among different forms of Buddhism, this shift in understanding has been called different things, including awakening, enlightenment, Right View or Right Understanding, realization, satori, or kensho (a Japanese term which means “seeing one’s true nature”). What’s meant by this term, why is it so elusive, and how we can make the process of seeking less painful.
Domyo Burke - Zenstudies Podcast
Most note worthy replies:
Right view refers to seeing the nature of reality correctly, including the Four Noble Truths, the Three Universal Characteristics, and the Law of Karma. When one has Right View, they understand that craving and attachment lead to suffering, and they begin to let go of their desires.
On the clearest days
No flowers, no weeds,
just plants
On the clearest days
The garden
Is relieved of weeds
gassho, Shokai
stlah
合掌,生開
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