The Ninety-ninth Gate; Stillness
Stillness is a gate of Dharma illumination; for it realizes, and is replete with, the samādhi of the Tathāgata. (Nishijima/Cross)
Serene samadhi is a gate of realizing dharma; it accomplishes and maintains the samadhi of the Tathagata. (Tanahashi)
Brief Teisho: - by Rev. Jundo Cohen
' Zen Math'
Life/our experience is suffering if there is a gap between X (how things are) and Y (how we demand they otherwise be), and we do not accept, float with, allow, become whole with that gap between how things are (X) and what we would otherwise wish (Y).
Shikantaza closes the gap, as we sit radically with how things are, allowing thing to become as they become, even allowing that we may not like that gap, and float along.
Gate Gatha:
Capping Verse:
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
stlah
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
Stillness is a gate of Dharma illumination; for it realizes, and is replete with, the samādhi of the Tathāgata. (Nishijima/Cross)
Serene samadhi is a gate of realizing dharma; it accomplishes and maintains the samadhi of the Tathagata. (Tanahashi)
Brief Teisho: - by Rev. Jundo Cohen
' Zen Math'
Life/our experience is suffering if there is a gap between X (how things are) and Y (how we demand they otherwise be), and we do not accept, float with, allow, become whole with that gap between how things are (X) and what we would otherwise wish (Y).
Shikantaza closes the gap, as we sit radically with how things are, allowing thing to become as they become, even allowing that we may not like that gap, and float along.
Gate Gatha:
May we, together with all buddhas;
Remain calm, still and motionless
That we may realize the samādhi of the Tathāgata.
Remain calm, still and motionless
That we may realize the samādhi of the Tathāgata.
Capping Verse:
As the dust settles
Vision clears
Revealing all truths.
Vision clears
Revealing all truths.
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
stlah
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
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