{"id":527,"date":"2007-05-17T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2007\/05\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-87.html"},"modified":"2007-05-17T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T17:15:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2007\/05\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-87.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Fukanzazengi XIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Not going to extremes  &#8230;  <\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">The Middle Way.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Iwan ya <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">kano<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> Gion no sh\u00c3\u00b4chi taru, tanza rokunen no sh\u00c3\u00b4seki mitsu beshi. Sh\u00c3\u00b4rin no shin&#8217;in o tsutauru, menpeki ky\u00c3\u00bbsai no seimei nao kikoyu. Kosh\u00c3\u00b4 sudeni shikari, konjin nanzo benzezaru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Moreover, remembering the natural sage of Jetavana park, we can still see the traces of his six years of upright sitting.<\/span>We can still hear rumors of the transmitter of the mind-seal at Shaolin, spending nine years facing the wall. The ancient saints were like that already: how could people today fail to practice wholeheartedly? [Nishijima]<span style=\"\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Consider the Buddha: although he was wise at birth, the traces of his six years of upright sitting can yet be seen. <\/span>As for Bodhidharma, although he had received the mind-seal, his nine years of facing a wall is celebrated still. If even the ancient sages were like this, how can we today dispense with wholehearted practice? [SZTP}<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><embed flashvars=\"shw_id=253&#038;epi_id=1508\" 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><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Press the arrow for &#8216;play&#8217;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not going to extremes &#8230; The Middle Way. Iwan ya kano Gion no sh\u00c3\u00b4chi taru, tanza rokunen no sh\u00c3\u00b4seki mitsu beshi. Sh\u00c3\u00b4rin no shin&#8217;in o tsutauru, menpeki ky\u00c3\u00bbsai no seimei nao kikoyu. Kosh\u00c3\u00b4 sudeni shikari, konjin nanzo benzezaru. 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