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  • Myozan Kodo
    Friend of Treeleaf
    • May 2010
    • 1901

    Satori means creating your own life

    I love this quote from Kodo Sawaki. I just wanted to share it.
    Gassho
    Myozan
  • Shujin
    Treeleaf Unsui
    • Feb 2010
    • 1091

    #2
    Re: Satori means creating your own life

    Love the quote, Myozan. This is something I'm barely beginning to understand, although I feel lucky to have any concept at all. I see that The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo is out of print. Are there any other materials written about him? I've picked up a little bit through Opening the Hand of Thought; he seems like an amazing man.

    gassho,
    Shujin
    Kyōdō Shujin 教道 守仁

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    • Omoi Otoshi
      Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 801

      #3
      Re: Satori means creating your own life

      These quotes always make me smile:
      (Too bad they're mostly one liners, I feel some could use some elaboration!)
      http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/kodo-sa ... -you.shtml

      I have been on the look out for The Zen teaching of homeless Kodo too! :lol:

      /Pontus
      In a spring outside time, flowers bloom on a withered tree;
      you ride a jade elephant backwards, chasing the winged dragon-deer;
      now as you hide far beyond innumerable peaks--
      the white moon, a cool breeze, the dawn of a fortunate day

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      • Kaishin
        Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 2322

        #4
        Re: Satori means creating your own life

        There are some excerpts available online:

        http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/hk0.shtml
        Thanks,
        Kaishin (開心, Open Heart)
        Please take this layman's words with a grain of salt.

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        • Yugen

          #5
          Re: Satori means creating your own life

          Wisdom Books' website claims that it is "available...," and then in ambiguous small print underneath "this title has been delisted..."

          http://www.wisdom-books.com/ProductDeta ... umber=2445

          Gassho,
          Yugen

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          • Myoku
            Member
            • Jul 2010
            • 1491

            #6
            Re: Satori means creating your own life

            ...What does it mean to create your own life ?
            Is it even possible, to _not_ create your own life ?
            _()_
            Myoku

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            • Omoi Otoshi
              Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 801

              #7
              Satori means creating your own life

              In a nightmare, you feel like the helpless victim of the dream and you can't wake up. When I was a kid and had a lot of nightmares, I sometimes managed to wake myself up, but not completely. I was still in the dream, but I had some degree of control. I no longer fully identifed with the dream. I had some distance to what was happening to me and I could steer the dream in a different direction if I wanted to. You could say I was creating my own dream.

              /Pontus
              In a spring outside time, flowers bloom on a withered tree;
              you ride a jade elephant backwards, chasing the winged dragon-deer;
              now as you hide far beyond innumerable peaks--
              the white moon, a cool breeze, the dawn of a fortunate day

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              • Rich
                Member
                • Apr 2009
                • 2614

                #8
                Re: Satori means creating your own life

                Originally posted by Myoku
                ...What does it mean to create your own life ?
                Is it even possible, to _not_ create your own life ?
                _()_
                Myoku
                Just waking up one naturally creates life which we call our own.

                Being in a dream or delusion there is more risk of destructive behaviors.
                _/_
                Rich
                MUHYO
                無 (MU, Emptiness) and 氷 (HYO, Ice) ... Emptiness Ice ...

                https://instagram.com/notmovingmind

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                • Myoku
                  Member
                  • Jul 2010
                  • 1491

                  #9
                  Re: Satori means creating your own life

                  Gassho Rich,
                  Thank you
                  Myoku

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                  • Shokai
                    Treeleaf Priest
                    • Mar 2009
                    • 6393

                    #10
                    Re: Satori means creating your own life

                    Please stand back while I drop an "i" :lol:
                    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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                    • Myozan Kodo
                      Friend of Treeleaf
                      • May 2010
                      • 1901

                      #11
                      Re: Satori means creating your own life

                      Don't ask me,
                      Ask Mu.

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                      • Omoi Otoshi
                        Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 801

                        #12
                        Satori means creating your own life

                        The farmer asked the cow,
                        "Do you have buddha nature?"
                        "Mu"
                        In a spring outside time, flowers bloom on a withered tree;
                        you ride a jade elephant backwards, chasing the winged dragon-deer;
                        now as you hide far beyond innumerable peaks--
                        the white moon, a cool breeze, the dawn of a fortunate day

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                        • Rich
                          Member
                          • Apr 2009
                          • 2614

                          #13
                          Re: Satori means creating your own life

                          Originally posted by Myoku
                          Gassho Rich,
                          Thank you
                          Myoku
                          Thank you. Your question helped. I am curious to learn more about Kodo Sawaki.
                          _/_
                          Rich
                          MUHYO
                          無 (MU, Emptiness) and 氷 (HYO, Ice) ... Emptiness Ice ...

                          https://instagram.com/notmovingmind

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