{"id":106,"date":"2008-01-12T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2008\/01\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-genjo-ko-1.html"},"modified":"2008-01-12T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T15:40:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-genjo-ko-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2008\/01\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-genjo-ko-1.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Genjo Koan XIV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The truth that the Buddha taught is finding who \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u009d am. To find who \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u009d really am is to forget about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d To forget about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is to be whole with everything in experience. To be whole with everything in experience is to let go of my body<\/span> and my mind, and to let go of the body and mind of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. <\/span>No trace of realization remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.<\/span> When you first seek dharma, you imagine you are far away from its environs. At the moment when dharma is correctly transmitted, you are immediately your original self.<\/span> [Aitken & Tanahashi]
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To learn Buddhism is to learn ourselves. To learn ourselves is to forget ourselves. To forget ourselves is to be experienced by millions of things and phenomena. To be experienced by millions of things and phenomena is to let our own body and mind, and the body and mind of the external world, fall away. <\/span>[Then] we can forget the [mental] trace of realization, and show the [real] signs of forgotten realization continually, moment by moment.<\/span> When a person first seeks the Dharma, he is far removed from the borders of Dharma. But as soon as the Dharma is authentically transmitted to the person himself, he is a human being in his own true place. <\/span>[Nishijima]<\/p>\n

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