{"id":453,"date":"2007-08-09T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2007\/08\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-37.html"},"modified":"2007-08-09T03:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T03:26:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2007\/08\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-37.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Fukanzazengi LXV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Genjo Koan<\/span>‘ is also the title of one of the most famous sections of Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo. <\/span>The phrase has been translated many ways.<\/p>\n

Nishijima Roshi rendered these words as “The Realized Universe<\/span>.” Prof. Reiho Masunaga called it “the Koan expressed in daily life<\/span>.” Shohaku Okamura Roshi wrote:<\/div>\n

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My understanding of the title “Genjo-koan” is genjo (reality actually and presently taking place) is koan (absolute truth and also a question from reality to us). And koan is nothing other than genjo (things actually happening in front of our eyes). <\/span><\/div>\n
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Every thing, every place, is ‘the universe realized’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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><\/span><\/span>\u00e5\u2026\u00ac\u00e6\u00a1\u02c6\u00e7\u008f\u00be\u00e6\u02c6\u0090 <\/span>K\u00c3\u00b4an genj\u00c3\u00b4]<\/i>, <\/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. 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. 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]<\/span><\/p>\n

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