{"id":455,"date":"2007-08-03T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2007\/08\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-43.html"},"modified":"2007-08-03T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T08:44:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2007\/08\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-43.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Fukanzazengi LIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing to clean from the start, no washer to run &#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8230; Just sit Zazen, and the laundry&#8217;s done.<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What is called sitting-Zen is not learning Zen meditation.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">It is just a peaceful and effortless gate to reality. It is practice-and-experience which perfectly realizes the Buddha&#8217;s enlightenment. <\/span>The Universe is realized, untouched by restrictions or hindrances. 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 style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"\">.<\/span> [NISHIJIMA]<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The zazen I speak of is not meditation practice.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> It is simply the dharma gate of joyful ease, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment. <\/span>It is the koan realized; traps and snares can never reach it. 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 style=\"\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"> [SZTP]<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><embed flashvars=\"shw_id=253&amp;epi_id=11122\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" base=\"http:\/\/operator11.com\/swf\/\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#fff\" src=\"http:\/\/operator11.com\/swf\/o11player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"362\" width=\"432\"><\/embed><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/>Press on arrow for &#8216;play&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Nothing to clean from the start, no washer to run &#8230; &#8230; Just sit Zazen, and the laundry&#8217;s done. What is called sitting-Zen is not learning Zen meditation. It is just a peaceful and effortless gate to reality. 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