Meeting the Myriad Things: A Zen Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Genjokoan by Shinshu Roberts ISBN 9781645472728, 645472728, B0DWW18VQX instant download

Meeting the Myriad Things: A Zen Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Genjokoan by Shinshu Roberts ISBN 9781645472728, 645472728, B0DWW18VQX instant download

A guide to awakening buddha mind for the contemporary Zen practitioner.
In the words of Eihei Dōgen, the thirteenth-century Buddhist monk who introduced the Sōtō school of Zen to Japan, “To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.” Centuries later, these enigmatic words from his seminal “Genjōkōan” (Actualizing the Fundamental Point) are still studied in Zen communities the world over.
But what did Dōgen really mean when he encouraged studying the self to forget the self? In this clarifying new commentary, esteemed Zen teacher Shinshu Roberts takes readers on a journey to understand Japan’s great Buddhist philosopher. Roberts applies her deep familiarity with Dōgen’s work to illuminate the text as a unified story in which Dōgen reveals the nondual nature of reality.
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