The Essential Dogen by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Author:Kazuaki Tanahashi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Do you attain the way with the mind or the body?

Those in the house of the scriptural schools say, “You attain the way with the body, because body and mind are one.” But they are not clear about how the body directly attains the way.

Now, in our house [of Zen practice], body and mind together attain the way. As long as you try to figure out buddha dharma with mind, you can never attain it even for myriad eons or thousands of lifetimes. It is attained by letting go of the mind and abandoning views and interpretations. To see form and clarify the mind, to hear sound and come to realization, is attainment of the way with the body.

Thus, when you practice just sitting and continuously give up all thoughts and views, the way becomes more and more intimate. So attaining the way means attaining it completely with the whole body. With this awareness you should sit wholeheartedly.

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