The 92nd of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

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  • Shokai
    Dharma Transmitted Priest
    • Mar 2009
    • 6393

    The 92nd of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination


    Gate Ninety-two

    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.

    The wisdom pāramitā is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we eradicate the darkness of ignorance, together with attachment to views, and we teach and guide foolish living beings.

    Wisdom pāramitā : the wisdom of knowledge

    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:
    "In the Mahayana Six Perfections (paramitas), the sixth perfection is prajna paramita -- the perfection of wisdom. It is said of the perfection of wisdom that it contains all the other perfections, and without it no perfection is possible. "Wisdom," in this case, is nothing other than the realization of sunyata. This realization is said to be the door to enlightenment. "Realization" is emphasized because an intellectual understanding of a doctrine of emptiness is not the same thing as wisdom. To be wisdom, emptiness first must be intimately and directly perceived and experienced. Even so, an intellectual understanding of sunyata is the usual first step to realization.
    - Barabara O'Brien's Leaning Religion; link here



    Most note worthy replies :

    So much is contained in prajñā-pāramitā
    That I can put all of my efforts into seeing
    How it blooms, all the while
    Paying no heed to what you are doing.

    The densest of fogs
    Dissipates
    In the morning sun

    合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo 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/
  • Washin
    Senior Priest-in-Training
    • Dec 2014
    • 3800

    #2
    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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    • Anchi
      Member
      • Sep 2015
      • 556

      #3
      Life itself is the only teacher.
      一 Joko Beck


      STLah
      安知 Anchi

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      • Myo Shin
        Member
        • Aug 2021
        • 49

        #4

        Comment

        • Juki
          Member
          • Dec 2012
          • 771

          #5


          Juki
          "First you have to give up." Tyler Durden

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          • Nengyoku
            Member
            • Jun 2021
            • 536

            #6
            Thank you for being the warmth in my world.

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            • aprapti
              Member
              • Jun 2017
              • 889

              #7

              hobo kore dojo / 歩歩是道場 / step, step, there is my place of practice

              Aprāpti (अप्राप्ति) non-attainment

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              • Tairin
                Member
                • Feb 2016
                • 2837

                #8


                Tairin
                Sat today
                泰林 - Tai Rin - Peaceful Woods

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                • Nengyoku
                  Member
                  • Jun 2021
                  • 536

                  #9
                  The densest of fogs
                  Dissipates
                  In the morning sun
                  We cannot see the fog
                  We only see the light reflected
                  Such it is with ignorance

                  Gassho,
                  Nengyoku
                  SatLah
                  Thank you for being the warmth in my world.

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                  • Shokai
                    Dharma Transmitted Priest
                    • Mar 2009
                    • 6393

                    #10
                    We cannot see the fog
                    We only see the light reflected
                    Such it is with ignorance
                    True to the spirit of Huineng, the sixth Partiarch

                    gassho, Shokai
                    st;ah
                    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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                    • Nengyoku
                      Member
                      • Jun 2021
                      • 536

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Shokai
                      True to the spirit of Huineng, the sixth Partiarch

                      gassho, Shokai
                      st;ah
                      I appreciate your kind encouragement, friend

                      Gassho,
                      Nengyoku
                      Sat
                      Thank you for being the warmth in my world.

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