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lecture 6
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article on Zen
Dõgens most famous teaching
• “To learn the Buddha Way is to learn the self. To learn the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be verified by the myriad things.”
• Here, “forgetting the self” means realizing the emptiness of ego
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thinking not thinking - do not doing do not doing - instead of being passive, you are actively choosing not to participate and to let things unfold as they naturally should
- concept orientated and based in nature philosphy
you participate but you don't want to own (?)
not wondering just sitting -- difference between
no should - more suggestion
with the meditiation of the morning -- it creates a holding space, but Kiene argues that it is not there within do not do -- shikontaza (?)
what kind of metaphors do we encounter in the texts - to go back to the context of the concept
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emptiness emerges through form
- there is no emptiness without form, what ever emptiness is, is form
How does this work express nondual/correlative thinking/interdependent arising?
- Persimmons appear through each other, in relational, intra-active constellations.
- the depth that perspective creates through relationality (?)
Casper David Friedrich, Mönch am meer 1808-10How does this painting capture the intra-action of form and emptiness? ‘the’ infinite (emptiness) intimated in its entanglement/contrast with human form:
- one becomes visible through the other: entangling of perspectives.
Elaine de Kooning, Spring, 1965
How does this painting illustrate impermanence?
- ‘Nature’ as emergent process instead of collection of ‘things’
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Detachment in Zen, and especially in Dōgen, is not about indifference towards others and other beings or matter.
- It’s the reverse: detaching from the illusion of a separate self leads to intimate entanglements with what is/emerges.
do not do, think not think
Dogen: awaken to your delusions; study a distorted mirror
how do you study these?
- journalling -- patterns, repetitions
- not falling asleep?
- thinking
when you take action to rushed, when you set your goal in advance, your response to it may be limited
Dogan in brief
- thinking and sensing beyond binary oppositions:
- illusion and realisation, relative, and absolute, are two sides of the same coin
- sitting in zazen, being in action (meditating, cooking, walking, writing): continuous practice
- enlightenment/ realisation takes place through the self in action, through constant practice, no single moment of enlightenment
wisdom of the sermont - wisdom of reading a situation for what it is not desire to change but the abilitity to change -- buddhism
dogan in brief
- buddha nature always already everywhere, sensed as interdependent with everything around
- reality is momentary, impermanent; realisatio is attuned, in action
- impermanence is buddha nature
- you don't strive beyond but are intimate with, and fully accept this impermanent world
Buddha nature=impermanence, intimacy with nature, reality as it cannot be grasped by discriminating mind: concrete, as it is, in action…because we are in it, included in it, we cannot see it. Like blossoms, cuckoos, snow, we are elements of spring, summer, fall, and winter—and expressive of these seasons.
dogen: -- aiming for not-thinking leads to clinging, striving not thinking = not being attached
- to either thinking or not thinking. let your thoughts be, go, fly away
implexity
- be implied in complexity
- implied in dynamic complexity
life / the world = activity, you are intra-active with it
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