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  • Shokai
    Treeleaf Priest
    • Mar 2009
    • 6394

    37/108 Gates of Dharma Illumination


    The Thirty-seventh Gate


    Belief and understanding are a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with
    them] we decisively comprehend the paramount [truth]

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    gassho, Shokai
    stlah
    合掌,生開
    gassho, Shokai

    仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

    "Open to life in a benevolent way"

    https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
  • Seikan
    Member
    • Apr 2020
    • 712

    #2
    Belief and intellectual understanding help to frame our practice and keep us on the right path so that we can know truth through direct experience. Two sides of the coin, if you will...

    Trust in the teachings
    Maintain belief
    But keep on sitting

    Gassho,
    Seikan

    -stlah-
    聖簡 Seikan (Sacred Simplicity)

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    • Shokai
      Treeleaf Priest
      • Mar 2009
      • 6394

      #3
      Originally posted by Seikan
      Belief and intellectual understanding help to frame our practice and keep us on the right path so that we can know truth through direct experience. Two sides of the coin, if you will...

      Trust in the teachings
      Maintain belief
      But keep on sitting

      Gassho,
      Seikan

      -stlah-
      合掌,生開
      gassho, Shokai

      仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

      "Open to life in a benevolent way"

      https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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      • Washin
        Treeleaf Unsui
        • Dec 2014
        • 3795

        #4
        Trust in the teachings
        Maintain belief
        But keep on sitting
        Kaidō (皆道) Every Way
        Washin (和信) Harmony Trust
        ----
        I am a novice priest-in-training. Anything that I say must not be considered as teaching
        and should be taken with a 'grain of salt'.

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        • Jakuden
          Member
          • Jun 2015
          • 6141

          #5
          Originally posted by Seikan
          Belief and intellectual understanding help to frame our practice and keep us on the right path so that we can know truth through direct experience. Two sides of the coin, if you will...

          Trust in the teachings
          Maintain belief
          But keep on sitting

          Gassho,
          Seikan

          -stlah-
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          Gassho
          Jakuden
          SatToday/LAH


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          • Nengei
            Member
            • Dec 2016
            • 1696

            #6
            That which is, which I know is there
            I can't know for sure, and that's not fair
            But I can sit on a mat
            Toward a wall in my flat
            And see the pizza's the same as the bear.

            (Sorry, it's been a long couple of days. Also, I live in a house.)

            Gassho
            Nengei
            Sat today. NAH (needed a hand).
            遜道念芸 Sondō Nengei (he/him)

            Please excuse any indication that I am trying to teach anything. I am a priest in training and have no qualifications or credentials to teach Zen practice or the Dharma.

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            • Shokai
              Treeleaf Priest
              • Mar 2009
              • 6394

              #7
              Nengei:

              No need for apologies, I understand what living in a house means. Hope you got the NAH

              gassho, Shokai
              合掌,生開
              gassho, Shokai

              仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

              "Open to life in a benevolent way"

              https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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