Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo by Shohaku Okumura

Author:Shohaku Okumura
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Tags: Philosophy, Zen, Religion, Buddhism, Rituals & Practice, Mysticism
ISBN: 9780861719341
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

In this passage, the drop of water represents the self and the moon represents the ten-thousand dharmas (all things, the myriad things). As we read this, we should keep in mind that the self Dōgen speaks of is a knot in the network of interdependent origination. There is no self that is without relationship to this network of the myriad things, and in fact, the self’s relationship to the network is the self. As Zen master Panshan said, “The self swallows the myriad things and the myriad things swallow the self.” What is it that is swallowed by both the self and the myriad things? Dōgen speaks of it by saying that the moon is reflected in each and every drop of water, no matter how small it is.

Dōgen wrote about this relationship in a waka poem (a Japanese traditional poetic form using a fixed number of syllables) titled “Impermanence”:

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