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"Just understand that birth-and-death is itself nirvana. There is nothing such as birth and death to be avoided; there is nothing such as nirvana to be sought. Only when you realize this are you free from birth and death."Dogen
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posted by Dan @ 8:47 AM
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if i had a sang/tam for every "only realize that..." followed by "... there is nothing to realize" in the same paragraph if not sentence, i could retire a king in zanskar.
uh huh!
Well, I'm glad you've got a sense of humor about it, x0tl, 'cause if you're going to visit AD, you'd better get used to it. And besides, what if Dogen were right (which he is, by the way), and what if this one little quote were to actually awaken someone (I know -there's no one to awaken... or is that an "only realize that..." or a "...there is nothing to realize"?
Uh huh!
thanks for this today my Danny...
Love...
hlnzfyfv! (doesn't that sound kinda like a sneeze?! :)
Gesundheit!
... and at hearing dan say, x0tl, z0tl was greatly endarkened!
my friend, there will come a day when some in your lineage will give teisho based on these commentaries.
also, let's not split a hair on the zen sword, but dogen's soto stuff never impresses me much. more of a hakuin fan myself, if only coz he was a loud mouth & went around disparaging everybody in his day.
remind me to whack myself 8 times in the head with the holy shitstick whenever i finally get to see you quote a master / sage / saint / whatever with the sole intent of shoving his buddhaface in mud!
till then, if i may give you a humble advice, you should watch more jungle book cartoons and pay attention to that kaa character, because kaa to mowgli is like dharma to dan.
!!!! THROW AWAY THE RAFT MAN !!!! THE RIVER IS FROZEN, WALK ACROSS ALREADY AND START SHOVELING SNOW !!!!
yours foolishly,
pratyeka z0tl
ps: my x0tl debt is now fully repaid!
z8tl's capping verse: ugh-gah!
Good one Dan. Some similiarity to my poem for today...
Nothing is special, everything is sacred.... Ah.....
z0tl...ha! Yes!
I'm with you, Isaiah, and with everyone else, and will heed z0tl's advice.
No pratyekabuddha this time around, and I'm more of a Hakuin guy myself, actually, and there's no raft, no river, never has been, never will be, and yet there's plenty of snow to shovel, but no shovel...and how to deal with that, since the sun's shining and it's snowing, right now?
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