{"id":588,"date":"2009-02-16T08:46:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T08:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/02\/zazen-as-supreme-perfect-enlig.html"},"modified":"2009-02-16T08:46:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T08:46:58","slug":"zazen-as-supreme-perfect-enlig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/02\/zazen-as-supreme-perfect-enlig.html","title":{"rendered":"Zazen &#8230; Supreme Perfect Enlightenment Attained!  (Bendowa I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We begin our series of talks on Master Dogen&#8217;s <i>Shobogenzo Bendowa &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/i><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta name=\"ProgId\" content=\"Word.Document\"><meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\"><meta name=\"Originator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><link rel=\"File-List\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CJM6512%7E1.COH%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml\"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument>  <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>  <w:PunctuationKerning\/>  <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>  <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>  <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>  <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>  <w:Compatibility>   <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>   <w:SnapToGridInCell\/>   <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>   <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>   <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>   <w:UseFELayout\/>  <\/w:Compatibility>  <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument><\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:LatentStyles><\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<style><!-- \/* Font Definitions *\/ @font-face\t{font-family:\"MS Mincho\";\tpanose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4;\tmso-font-alt:\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0161l\u00e2\u20ac\u0161r -\u00c2\u00be'\u00c2\u00a9\";\tmso-font-charset:128;\tmso-generic-font-family:modern;\tmso-font-pitch:fixed;\tmso-font-signature:-1610612033 1757936891 16 0 131231 0;}@font-face\t{font-family:\"\\@MS Mincho\";\tpanose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4;\tmso-font-charset:128;\tmso-generic-font-family:modern;\tmso-font-pitch:fixed;\tmso-font-signature:-1610612033 1757936891 16 0 131231 0;} \/* Style Definitions *\/ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\tmargin:0pt;\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\tfont-size:12.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"MS Mincho\";}@page Section1\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\tmargin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\tmso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1\t{page:Section1;}--><\/style>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n<style> \/* Style Definitions *\/ table.MsoNormalTable\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\tmso-padding-alt:0pt 5.4pt 0pt 5.4pt;\tmso-para-margin:0pt;\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\tfont-size:10.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-ansi-language:#0400;\tmso-fareast-language:#0400;\tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><i>anuttara samjak sambodhi<\/i> &#8230; means &#8220;supreme, incomparable, unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment&#8221; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><br \/>Most think of Zazen as a means to reach and attain some sought after enlightenment, somewhere down the road.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">But Master Dogen expressed <i>the very sitting <\/i>of Zazen as the realization of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">&#8220;supreme, incomparable, unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment&#8221; itself, right in that moment and in that very action!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">A<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">s if, walking down a road, each step by step is tasted as a perfect arrival home! <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; 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font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">still abiding taste of the self in self-fulfillment<\/span><i>&#8221;&nbsp; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&nbsp; <\/i><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">In other words, by experiencing Zazen as complete, by dropping all thought of any other place or action to be or do in that moment, by <i>just sitting<\/i> without judgment or feeling of lack &#8230; the self both drops away and is affirmed and fulfilled in that moment.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"> All is<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"> complete<\/span><\/i>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">_____________________________<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta name=\"ProgId\" content=\"Word.Document\"><meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\"><meta name=\"Originator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\"><link rel=\"File-List\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CJM6512%7E1.COH%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml\"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument>  <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>  <w:PunctuationKerning\/>  <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>  <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>  <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>  <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>  <w:Compatibility>   <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>   <w:SnapToGridInCell\/>   <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>   <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>   <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>   <w:UseFELayout\/>  <\/w:Compatibility>  <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument><\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:LatentStyles><\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<style><!-- \/* Font Definitions *\/ @font-face\t{font-family:\"MS Mincho\";\tpanose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4;\tmso-font-alt:\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0161l\u00e2\u20ac\u0161r -\u00c2\u00be'\u00c2\u00a9\";\tmso-font-charset:128;\tmso-generic-font-family:modern;\tmso-font-pitch:fixed;\tmso-font-signature:-1610612033 1757936891 16 0 131231 0;}@font-face\t{font-family:\"\\@MS Mincho\";\tpanose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4;\tmso-font-charset:128;\tmso-generic-font-family:modern;\tmso-font-pitch:fixed;\tmso-font-signature:-1610612033 1757936891 16 0 131231 0;} \/* Style Definitions *\/ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\tmargin:0pt;\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\tfont-size:12.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"MS Mincho\";}p.Default, li.Default, div.Default\t{mso-style-name:Default;\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\tmargin:0pt;\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:none;\tmso-layout-grid-align:none;\ttext-autospace:none;\tfont-size:12.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"MS Mincho\";\tcolor:black;}@page Section1\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\tmargin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\tmso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1\t{page:Section1;}--><\/style>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n<style> \/* Style Definitions *\/ table.MsoNormalTable\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\tmso-padding-alt:0pt 5.4pt 0pt 5.4pt;\tmso-para-margin:0pt;\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\tfont-size:10.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-ansi-language:#0400;\tmso-fareast-language:#0400;\tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b>ALL BUDDHA-TATHAGATAS TOGETHERhave been simply transmitting wondrous dharma and actualizing<i> anuttara samjaksambodhi <\/i>[supreme perfect enlightenment] for which there is an unsurpassable,unfabricated, wondrous method. This wondrous dharma, which has been transmittedonly from buddha to buddha without deviation, has as its criterion <i>jijuyuzanmai<\/i>. For disporting oneself freely in this samadhi, practicing zazen in anupright posture is the true gate. <\/b><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">[Kosho Uchiyama comments,&#8221;&#8230;<i>we can understand this (<\/i><\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">jijuyuzanmai)<\/span> <\/i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><i>samadhi of self-fulfillment and enjoyment asthe samadhi or concentration on the self when it simply receives and acceptsits function, or its spiritual position in the world.<\/i>&#8220;]&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta name=\"ProgId\" content=\"Word.Document\"><meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\"><meta name=\"Originator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\"><link rel=\"File-List\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CJM6512%7E1.COH%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml\"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument>  <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>  <w:PunctuationKerning\/>  <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>  <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>  <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>  <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>  <w:Compatibility>   <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>   <w:SnapToGridInCell\/>   <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>   <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>   <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>   <w:UseFELayout\/>  <\/w:Compatibility>  <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument><\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:LatentStyles><\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<style><!-- \/* Font Definitions *\/ @font-face\t{font-family:\"MS Mincho\";\tpanose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4;\tmso-font-alt:\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0161l\u00e2\u20ac\u0161r -\u00c2\u00be'\u00c2\u00a9\";\tmso-font-charset:128;\tmso-generic-font-family:modern;\tmso-font-pitch:fixed;\tmso-font-signature:-1610612033 1757936891 16 0 131231 0;}@font-face\t{font-family:\"\\@MS Mincho\";\tpanose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4;\tmso-font-charset:128;\tmso-generic-font-family:modern;\tmso-font-pitch:fixed;\tmso-font-signature:-1610612033 1757936891 16 0 131231 0;} \/* Style Definitions *\/ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\tmargin:0pt;\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\tfont-size:12.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"MS Mincho\";}@page Section1\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\tmargin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\tmso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1\t{page:Section1;}--><\/style>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n<style> \/* Style Definitions *\/ table.MsoNormalTable\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\tmso-padding-alt:0pt 5.4pt 0pt 5.4pt;\tmso-para-margin:0pt;\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\tfont-size:10.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\tmso-ansi-language:#0400;\tmso-fareast-language:#0400;\tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><i>From:<\/i><\/span><i> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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Thereason this [method] is transmitted only from buddha to buddha, without deviation,is that the samadhi of receiving and using the self is its standard. Forenjoyment of this samadhi the practice of [Za]zen in the erect sitting posture,has been established as the authentic gate.<\/b> <i>From:<\/i> <i>Bendowa &#8211; A Talk about Pursuing the Truth&nbsp; &#8211; Nishijima-Cross<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0SfSb0SZWgI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0SfSb0SZWgI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><u>(remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells;<\/u><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><u>a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes is recommended)<\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2769166\">To subscribe to &#8220;Treeleaf Zen&#8221; click here.<\/a><o:p><\/o:p> <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We begin our series of talks on Master Dogen&#8217;s Shobogenzo Bendowa &#8230; anuttara samjak sambodhi &#8230; means &#8220;supreme, incomparable, unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment&#8221; Most think of Zazen as a means to reach and attain some sought after enlightenment, somewhere down the road. 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