{"id":631,"date":"2009-04-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/04\/the-buddhas-wisdom-made-real.html"},"modified":"2009-04-09T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T11:00:00","slug":"the-buddhas-wisdom-made-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/04\/the-buddhas-wisdom-made-real.html","title":{"rendered":"The Buddha’s Wisdom Made Real …"},"content":{"rendered":"

(BENDOWA XVIII)<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

In other words …<\/p>\n

    In a moment of sitting Zazen, you and all things of the universe are no less than the Buddha sitting Zazen under the Bodhi Tree, attaining realization and commencing to teach (the meaning of “turn the Dharma Wheel<\/i>“), expounding and expressing the profound state of Prajna. <\/p>\n

(Prajna is a wonderful term that means Buddhist wisdom, understanding, discernment … grasping the heart of the Buddha’s teachings and ending suffering.)<\/p>\n

<\/i>In other words …<\/p>\n

    If one sees Zazen, not merely as our trying to be a Buddha someday, but as the Buddha himself acting perfectly Buddha-like right there … and if you see the very sitting of Zazen as making all the world right, and just the way it should be … if if you see Zazen as the Buddha’s wisdom made real … <\/p>\n

…. THEN IT MIGHT REALLY BE SO, AND YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE THAT.<\/b><\/div>\n


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SEEING ZAZEN AS SO, MAY TRULY MAKE THE WORLD SO  <\/b><\/div>\n
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