{"id":728,"date":"2009-08-26T20:14:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T20:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/08\/the-dancers-and-the-dance.html"},"modified":"2009-08-26T20:14:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T20:14:01","slug":"the-dancers-and-the-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/08\/the-dancers-and-the-dance.html","title":{"rendered":"The Dancers The Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

In today’s section of Bendowa<\/i>, Master Dogen presents a rather philosophical argument (reprinted in full below<\/i>) upholding the Buddha’s rejection of the idea of a separate “soul” or “mind essence’ which continues on, and is later reborn, after the body dies. He considers that a too simple, one-sided way to view things. It separates life into pieces.<\/p>\n
His point is that body and mind are never separate … and so we cannot say that one ends while the other does not. There is not a time, Master Dogen states, “<\/p>\n