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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
Prajna means transcendental wisdom, translated as wisdom beyond wisdom. An essential Mahayana Buddhist teaching it is the experience of emptiness or interconnectedness of all things.
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"In spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you."
– Dōgen
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
This may seem contrary to what is often said, that all sentient beings have Buddha nature, but note the word "embodied" that Dogen uses.
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"Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately."
– Dōgen
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Quote Body like mountain. Heart like ocean. Mind like sky. Blue-green watercolour background with a black splotch in centre
Day 12 The 100 Day Project 2026
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
Dogen believed that there was a circle of aspiration, practice, enlightenment, and nirvana. Becoming enlightened did not negate the need to practice.
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"The whole world is a single flower; each and every phenomenon is a blossom from that flower."
– Dōgen
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
This is an interesting quote from the chapter on enlightenment. Is there a state of being beyond enlightenment?
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"A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it."
– Dōgen
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"Looking deeply into the writings and sutras of past teachers does not mean to learn something that is unrelated to us. Studying ancient writings means to study our lives. To study the Tenzo Kyōkun came to mean for me that I would be studying my own life."
– Dōgen
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"The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass."
– Dōgen
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
Dogen speaks of attaining the way based on aspiration. It's about the journey, not how long it takes.
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When the mind is quiet
The moon reflects within it;
Then, even if there are waves,
They are bright 😊
Dogen
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"To be in harmony with the oneness of life is to be without anxiety about imperfection."
– Dōgen
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lunar delight
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. —Dogen
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
In Zen Buddhism, the practice of zazen (meditation) is the primary activity for revealing and cultivating Buddha Nature, which is something we all possess.
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Water birds
go and come back
without leaving any trace behind.
Even so, they do not forget
the path.
Dogen
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"Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools."
– Dōgen
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Excellent image. I think it pairs well with this poem by #Dogen that I translated earlier today:
Startled by the Sound of Rain
Hear the sound simply
Without thinking or feeling
Just become part
Of each jeweled drop
As it falls from the eaves
#meditation #zen #poetry
Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to dharma see no dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of #dharma.
- #Dogen #Zen- ji
This is a #meditation poem by #Dogen
The silence held deep
Within your heart/mind
Is like the moon’s clarity
Which can bring its radiance
Even to the breaking waves
静かなる
心の中に
すむ月は
波も砕けて
ひかりとぞなる
#Buddhism #tanka
print by Sandaime Horiyoshi
Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
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Here is a short lyric by the Zen Master #Dogen.
The Treasure in Seeing All Things Arising and Ceasing
In the depth of night
Framed by moonlight
A small boat drifts
At perfect ease
Not tossed by waves
Not swayed by breeze
#poetry #zen
In spring, the cherry blossoms,
In summer, the cuckoo’s song,
In autumn, the moon shining,
In winter, the frozen snow:
How pure and clear are the seasons!
Dogen
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Do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home.
- #Dogen
Source: https://dogeninstitute.wordpress.com/2016/09/04/turning_40/
Your #existenial PSA for the day, courtesy of #Dogen #BOTD:
Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen. Dogen is expounding on how a master can authentically transmit the dharma to their students.
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