I picked up the Dogen Essential audiobook for $2. The narrator is excellent, and Dogen's writings are clear, accessible, and great.
I wanted to share these quotes (out of many that stuck with me), definitely going to give this a few more listens.
Just understand that when a master who has attained the way with a clear mind authentically transmits to a student who has merged with realization, then the wondrous dharma of the Seven Original Buddhas, in its essence, is actualized and maintained. This cannot be known by those who study words. Therefore, set aside your doubt, practice zazen under an authentic teacher, and actualize buddhas' receptive samadhi.
It is taught that everyone attains the way by practice. Particularly in this authentically transmitted teaching of zazen, you are filled with the treasure you already have, entering dharma and leaving bondage behind. Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold.
All ancestors and all buddhas who uphold buddha dharma have made it the true path of unfolding enlightenment to sit upright, practicing in the midst of receptive samadhi. Those who attained enlightenment in India and China followed this way. Thus teachers and disciples intimately transmitted this excellent art as the essence of the teaching.
Within this unsurpassable manifestation of enlightenment, the entire world of the ten directions is but a small portion; enlightenment exceeds the boundary of the entire world.
One is greatly enlightened by taking up the three realms, by taking up one hundred grasses, by taking up the four great elements, by taking up buddha ancestors, and by taking up the fundamental point. All of these further attain great enlightenment by taking up great enlightenment. The very moment for this is just now.
AMA about Dogen's Essential writing collection as a first time reader.
Submitted June 26, 2017 at 09:44PM by Dillon123 http://ift.tt/2td03zn
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