While it isn't a secret (anymore) that Dogen's religion chose to expand to the West via four sex predator lineages.
It isn't a secret to anyone who has read Bielefeldt that Dogen invented Zazen prayer-meditation and lied about it.
The question is, are these lies related? Are these lies related to religious content brigading that Dogen's followers push in this forum?
Here is Sengcan:
The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose;
Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.
Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart;
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.
The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease;
While the deep meaning is misunderstood, it is useless to meditate on Rest.
It [the Buddha-nature] is blank and featureless as space; it has no "too little" or "too much;"
Only because we take and reject does it seem to us not to be so.
Do not chase after Entanglements as though they were real things,
Do not try to drive pain away by pretending that it is not real;
Pain, if you seek serenity in Oneness, will vanish of its own accord.
Are set far apart... does this mean that any lie, any "for or against", is as "bad" as any other?
While the deep meaning is misunderstood, it is useless to meditate on Rest, is this a warning about what happens when you see yourself as "good", and whatever facts you don't like as "bad"?
Do not chase after Entanglements as though they were real things, are all doctrines and beliefs and practices anything more than "entanglements"?
by pretending that it is not real, isn't the foundation of Dogen's religion pain and pretending?
Submitted February 04, 2019 at 05:14AM by ewk http://bit.ly/2HPMIFC
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