A Demonstration of the Six Spiritual Powers
195. Dharma Hall Discourse
Dogen said:
A capable master must be endowed with the six spiritual powers. The first is the power to go anywhere; second is the power to hear anywhere; third is the power to know others’ minds; fourth is the power to know previous lives; fifth is the power to see everywhere; sixth is the power to extinguish outflows [attachments].
Everyone, do you want to see the power to go anywhere?
The teacher Dogen raised his fist.
[To be continued]
— From Eihei Koroku, translated by Taigen Dan Leighton and Shohaku Okumura
Jundo says, “A Buddhist Practitioner is originally endowed with the power to go anywhere … for when all thought of ‘here’ and ‘there’ are dropped from mind, where is she not?”
… and if that doesn’t work, she can at least hop a plane.
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