{"id":297,"date":"2008-02-22T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2008\/02\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-genjo-ko-28.html"},"modified":"2008-02-22T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T16:44:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-genjo-ko-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2008\/02\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-genjo-ko-28.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Genjo Koan XXIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is your ‘True Self’ very far away?<\/div>\n

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To study the buddha way is to study the self.<\/span> To study the self is to forget the self. <\/span>To forget the self <\/span>is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things,<\/span> your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop awa<\/span>y<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> <\/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><\/span> [Aitken & Tanahashi]
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<\/span>To learn Buddhism is to learn ourselves.<\/span> <\/span>To learn ourselves is to forget ourselves. <\/span><\/span>To forget ourselves i<\/span>s to be experienced by millions of things and phenomena. To be experienced by millions of things and phenomena is<\/span> <\/span>to let our own body and mind, and the body and mind of the external world, fall away<\/span><\/span>.<\/span> <\/span><\/span>[Then] we can forget the [mental] trace of realization, and show the [real] signs of forgotten realization continually, moment by moment.<\/span> <\/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><\/span>[Nishijima]<\/p>\n

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