The Sixty-seventh of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

[Shokai]

The Sixty-seventh Gate: The Power of Wisdom

The power of wisdom* is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we depart from the two extremes. (Nishijima/Cross)

The ability of wisdom is a gate of realizing dharma; it goes beyond dualism. (Tanahashi)

*[Power of Wisdom: great or marked ability to know what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action]

Gate Gatha:

May we, together with all buddhas;
Actualize the power of wisdom
That we may keep to the middle way.

Reflection Prompts:

1. Do either departing from the two extremes or going beyond dualism mean the middle way?
2. How does wisdom help us to either depart from the two extremes or go beyond dualism
3. Write a new Capping Verse?

Capping Verse:

Knowing left from right
We walk straight
And never backwards

stlah
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai

仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"

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[Choujou]

Reflection Prompts:

1. Do either departing from the two extremes or going beyond dualism mean the middle way?
2. How does wisdom help us to either depart from the two extremes or go beyond dualism
3. Write a new Capping Verse?

1. Yes! It is realizing that everything is one thing.

2. Because through prajna, one realizes the emptiness of all things. It’s all one thing. The separations are created only in the small mind.

3. From highest wave
To the darkest depths
All just the ocean.

Gassho,
Choujou

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