Four Words

[Jiken]

Gassho,

Jiken

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[Matt]

Thanks for sharing this, Shingen. I particularly liked the following:

"If we seek to use zazen to accomplish a goal this turns zazen into a technique for the acquisition of something separate from ourselves. It only reinforces a false sense of separateness and a dualistic view of the world. Similarly, in the everyday world, while we must point ourselves in the direction of goals, they recede from our grasp when we are fixed on the end goal and not wholeheartedly on what we are actually doing.

"Our practice of shikantaza is the practice of being 'thus,' untainted by goals, desires, mental fabrications We sit wholeheartedly and actualize what Dōgen calls the dharma gate of peace and joy. – the state of non duality, the state of wholeness. Likewise, if we can be 'thus' in all of our activities, we enter the realm of peace and joy."

Gassho,
Matt
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[Mp]

"Our practice of shikantaza is the practice of being 'thus,' untainted by goals, desires, mental fabrications We sit wholeheartedly and actualize what Dōgen calls the dharma gate of peace and joy. – the state of non duality, the state of wholeness. Likewise, if we can be 'thus' in all of our activities, we enter the realm of peace and joy."

Your welcome Matt, I too enjoy this prospective that Tonen shared ... I have added it to my favorite quotes. =)

Gassho
Shingen

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[Shinzan]

Thanks, Shingen.
_/\_ Shinzan
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