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Notes on Shohaku Okumura’s ‘Realizing Genjokoan’ (W2)
This will be just a brief note, focusing on choices in translation. My advisor has been working on “Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook” – which I think will be a great resource for anyone interested in Japanese thought (then again, I am biased..) which includes his own translation of Genjōkoan. I cannot reproduce it in its entirety, [...]
Notes on Shohaku Okumura’s ‘Realizing Genjokoan’ (K2)
Dōgen: “When one side is illuminated the other is dark.” (p.58-59) – “buddhas and living beings are not two separate groups of people … Because [absolute reality] includes everything, this absolute reality does not exclude our relative views and discriminating minds, including our deluded relative views. If it did not include our relative views it [...]
Notes on Shohaku Okumura’s ‘Realizing Genjokoan’ (K1)
Some time during 2010 I recall calling Shohaku Okumura’s book Realizing Genjokoan ”my most anticipated book of the year” but since then I’ve read it twice and really struggled with it. The problem is that I’ve found it a bit boring. I don’t think this reflects on the quality of the book though so much as it does on [...]
Zazen & Daily Life
In his recent post 84,000 Flavours, Kyōshin referred to a comment made by the teacher Dosho Port on the Wild Fox Zen blog. “In Dosho Port’s post he compared and contrasted Okumura words with the words of a Rinzai priest about practice and daily life and said that Okumura’s view is that ‘zazen is strong [...]
84,000 Flavours
For some reason when I woke up this morning my mind was deeply engaged in recollection of the past and I started to feel a kind of vertigo over what often seems like the incredible disconnect between all my past thoughts, plans, behaviours, views and the actual course of my life. For the most part [...]
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