{"id":115,"date":"2008-03-05T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2008\/03\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-genjo-ko-7.html"},"modified":"2008-03-05T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T17:17:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-genjo-ko-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2008\/03\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-genjo-ko-7.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Genjo Koan XXVI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the Dogen-think of ‘simultaneouly true’ perspectives …<\/p>\n
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Firewood becomes ash, and it does not become firewood again. Yet, do not suppose that the ash is after and the firewood before. You should understand that firewood abides in the phenomenal expression of firewood, which fully includes before and after and is independent of before and after. Ash abides in the phenomenal expression of ash, which fully includes before and after. <\/span>Just as firewood does not become firewood again after it is ash, you do not return to birth after death.<\/span> <\/span> This being so, it is an established way in buddha-dharma to deny that birth turns into death. Accordingly, birth is understood as no-birth. It is an unshakable teaching in the Buddha’s discourse that death does not turn into birth. Accordingly, death is understood as no-death.
Birth is an expression complete this moment. Death is an expression complete this moment. They are like winter and spring. You do not call winter the beginning of spring, nor summer the end of spring.<\/span><\/span> <\/span>[Aitken & Tanahashi]<\/p>\n

Firewood becomes ash; it can never go back to being firewood. Nevertheless, we should not take the view that ash is its future and firewood is its past. We should recognize that firewood occupies its place in the Universe as firewood, and it has its past moment and its future moment. And although we can say that it has its past and its future, the past moment and the future moment are cut off. Ash exists in its place in the Universe as ash, and it has its past moment and its future moment. <\/span>Just as firewood can never again be firewood after becoming ash, human beings cannot live again after their death.<\/span> <\/span>So it is a rule in Buddhism not to say that life turns into death. This is why we speak of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no appearance.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And it is Buddhist teaching as established in the preaching of Gautama Buddha that death does not turn into life. This is why we speak of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no disappearance.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Life is an instantaneous situation, and death is also an instantaneous situation. It is the same, for example, with winter and spring. We do not think that winter becomes spring, and we do not say that spring becomes summer.<\/span><\/span> <\/span>[Nishijima]<\/p>\n

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