Sublime

There is a difference between singing under some eucalyptus trees at a river crossing in the Northern Territory, and being on the stage at the Sydney Opera House, but we can’t say that the difference is always in favor of the Sydney Opera House. What makes a human life real and beautiful is available in every place.

the Buddha was not a Buddhist. On the contrary, according to the Pali Canon, he requested that his image not be depicted, he worried that he might be worshiped as a god, he allowed people to continue to practice their existing religious rites, and he remained agnostic on such fundamental questions about the creation of the world and what happens af

Zhaozhou often quoted this saying by Sengcan: “The great way is not difficult if you just don’t pick and choose.”

Yet how many people continue to practice with the implicit goal of someday meeting Buddha? We may imagine we will meet him in the guise of an enlightened master—a qualitatively different order of being than ourselves—or that we will one day, after years and years of hard practice, finally become whatever it is we imagine we want to turn into.

Teishin,

Occidental Great Eastern Sun.

Dogen founded the Soto sect of Zen Buddhism in 1227 after experiencing enlightenment in the Chinese monastery on Mount Tiantong in 1225. On returning to Japan,

Can you find where this moment comes from or where it goes home to?

Shobogenzo