{"id":445,"date":"2007-08-21T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2007\/08\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-36.html"},"modified":"2007-08-21T05:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T05:03:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2007\/08\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-36.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Fukanzazengi LXVI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is called sitting-Zen is not learning Zen meditation.<\/span> It is just a peaceful and effortless gate to reality. <\/span><\/span>It is practice-and-experience <\/span>which perfectly realizes the Buddha’s enlightenment.<\/span> <\/span>The Universe is realized,<\/span> untouched by restrictions or hindrances.<\/span> To grasp this meaning is to be like a dragon that has found water, or like a tiger before a mountain stronghold.<\/span> Remember, true reality is naturally manifesting itself before us, and gloom and distraction vanish at a stroke<\/span>.<\/span> [NISHIJIMA]<\/p>\n

<\/span>The zazen I speak of is not meditation practice.<\/span> <\/span>It is simply the dharma gate of joyful ease<\/span>, the practice-realization<\/span> <\/span>of totally culminated enlightenment.<\/span><\/span> <\/span>It is the koan realized;<\/span> traps and snares can never reach it.<\/span> If you grasp the point, you are like a dragon gaining the water, like a tiger taking to the mountains.<\/span> For you must know that the true dharma appears of itself, so that from the start dullness and distraction are struck aside<\/span>.<\/span> [SZTP]<\/p>\n

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