When you see forms or hear
sounds fully engaging body-and-mind, you
grasp things directly. Unlike things and
their reflections in the mirror, and unlike
the moon and its reflection in the water,
when one side is illumined the other side
is dark.
When you see forms
or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind,
you grasp things directly.
This first part seems to say that in body-mind
you experience everything directly.
Unlike things and their
reflections in the mirror, and unlike
the moon and its reflection in the
water, when one side is illumined
the other side is dark.
The second part seems to
say you don’t experience things directly.
What's Dogen telling you?
When
you see forms or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind...
... when one side is illumined
the other side is dark.
If I look at you, I don’t see
behind me. One side is illuminated, one side isn’t.
If you take one view, have one opinion,
does this mean you can't take or see
another?
When you see forms
or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind,
you grasp things directly.
Does this relate to your practice of
zazen? In zazen do we not drop body-and-mind?
