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The Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo Eihei Dogen
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Touches the heart of practice through Zen Master Dogen's life. A lot of the chants at my Zen Center refer to various dualities, including both Master Hakuin's Chant and Heart of Perfect Wisdom, form vs no-form, thought vs no-thought, form is emptiness and emptiness is form, for example. Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobo Genzo, in. Chapter 22, the first of Shobogenzo Volume 2, is a very long and very complicated one. Dogen pulls a classic Zen move by affirming and denying the same proposition. The organization's latest endorsement, “Dogen: Treasury of the True Dharma Eye,” is a complete, two-volume, English interpretation of Soto Zen founder Eihei Dogen's “Shobo Genzo,” a 1000-page collection of dharma (truth) . In May 2011, Joan Halifax organized a Dogen weekend at Upaya Zen Center to celebrate Kaz Tanahashi's ten-year work of translating and publishing the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo. Dogen, Lojong, and a whole lotta head scratching…Monks in the mosh pit, stage diving Dalai Lama and etc… Home · About Calligraphy of Bodhidharma, “Zen points directly to the human heart, see into your nature and become Buddha”, Hakuin Ekaku, 17th century (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Natalie will be co-leading the Dogen Symposium at Upaya Zen Center in July 2012 — for more information about Upaya's Dogen Symposium, click here: http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=770 . Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobo Genzo,. I think because a lot of the Posts on Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Nishijima & Cross translation) are a preliminary non-definitive set of notes as I make my way through and are best viewed as a mark that I have passed this way. All the quotations in today's posting are taken from Nishijima and Cross' translation of the Shobogenzo, Dogen Sangha press, book 3, chapter 65, "Ryugin-The moaning of Dragons." And, as usual, I recommend Here Dogen connects the idea of the movement of energy within the body directly to the octave--specifically, to what we would call the development of the octave up through the first conscious shock, to the point where it meets five, or, the heart. The Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo by Masao Abe and Norman Waddell. This thirteenth-century figure has much to teach us all—for the questions that drove him have always been at the heart of Buddhist practice. Deep in the heart of a silent child.