Dogen's proclamation

Dogen Zenji said:

"The essence of the Buddha-Dharma is never seeing the nature. Where has any of the Seven Buddhas or the twenty-eight patriarchs of India said that the Buddha-Dharma is only “seeing the nature”? The Sixth Patriarch’s Platform Sutra contains the words “seeing the nature,” but that text is a fake text; it is not the writing of one to whom the Dharma treasury was transmitted, and it is not the words of Sōkei. It is a text upon which descendants of the Buddhist Patriarch absolutely never rely." (Shizen-biku, SBGZ, vol 4, p 269, BDK Edition)

Submitted August 11, 2016 at 04:09AM by Dhammakayaram http://ift.tt/2bhp3Nk