{"id":533,"date":"2007-05-10T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2007\/05\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-92.html"},"modified":"2007-05-10T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T20:13:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2007\/05\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-fukanzaz-92.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Fukanzazengi IX"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re always perfectly you, and this world always this world … why sit? why practice?<\/p>\n

What do you hope to find?<\/p>\n

Dogen Zenji wrote :<\/p>\n

In general, we never depart from the place where we should be<\/span><\/span>:<\/span> of what use, then, are the tip-toes of training?<\/span> [Nishijima]<\/p>\n

It is never apart from this very place;<\/span> what is the use of traveling around to practice?<\/span> <\/span>[SZTP]<\/p>\n

(The sentence momentarily cut out of the broadcast is …”We can do this [drop resistance] to ourselves and to the world to such a degree in Zazen, that the hard borders between ourselves and the world soften, even fully disappear …”]<\/span><\/div>\n

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