The 43rd of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

[Shokai]

Gate Forty-three
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.

Pursuit of abundant knowledge is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we truly reflect on the form of the Dharma.

By “Dharma Gate”, We mean 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:
"The buddha-dharma means making a constant effort without getting anything for yourself. This is nothing that can be determined by asking, "What do I have to do?" Nevertheless, you've got to do what you've got to do, and you mustn't do what you mustn't do. When you've got to give something, give even you're own head. When you mustn't give anything, don't even give the tip of your tougue.
Practice isn't in things. It's in actions."

- To You, Zen sayings of Kodo Sawaki, pg. 146

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Most note worthy replies :

Anything that puts light onto Dharma

Warms and illuminates the universe.

The Dharma takes shape

With study

Then we break the mold

But all of this is meaningless

Unless we taste the sweetness by

Actually chewing and swallowing.

合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
stlah

[Nengyoku]

Practice isn't in things. It's in actions.

[Anchi]

[Washin]

[Juki]

[aprapti]

[Tairin]

Thank you Shokai


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Nengyoku]

The entire universe is the true human body
The entire universe is the gate of liberation
The entire universe is the eye of Vairochana
The entire universe is the Dharma body of the self

Realization does not depend on thoughts, but comes forth far beyond them; realization is helped only by the power of realization itself. Know that then there is no delusion, and there is no realization

With the entire universe as the Dharma body of the self, there is nothing to attain. With nothing to attain, your load never grows heavier. Without the added weight, you can continue to attain new knowledge without worry of your load becoming overburdened.

Gassho,
Nengyoku
Sat