The Essential Dogen

The Essential Dogen

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• Author: DÅgen, Kazuaki Tanahashi (Editor), Peter Levitt (Editor)
• Full_Title: The Essential Dogen
• Category: books
• Last Highlighted Date: 2023-01-26 04:56:00+00:00

Highlights

• And so we do not sit in order to become enlightened; we sit as an expression of enlightenment. That is what buddhas do.
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• We practice because we do not yet know who or what we are. But as a result of many causes, including the suffering we experience and the longing engendered by that suffering, we aspire to know. That aspiration leads many people to begin the practice of zazen. Dogen expressed this beautifully when he said, “Wisdom is seeking wisdom.” Perhaps we might paraphrase and say that wholeness is seeking wholeness, self is seeking self.
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