Zen Master Dōgen Zenji: Four Lessons About Genuine Enlightenment | Zen Quotes
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- Dōgen Zenji was the founder of the 'Sōtō' Zen School of Buddhism in Japan. His legacy can be directly experienced in the Monastery of Eihei-Ji in the Yoshida District at Fukui, Japan. His Zazen teachings are still practiced today by many devoted Buddhists who follow the "Zenji Way."
But before Dogen became the spiritual master we all know today, he was just a plain, low-ranking monk in 13th-century Japan with some deep questions that no one he knew could answer.
For Master Dogen, the path to enlightenment is in itself enlightenment. Being enlightened is always an option in our daily lives if we just understand the true nature of enlightenment and the Buddha. Today lets look at some of his most profound quotes and wisdom.
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before enlightenment chop wood, fetch water.
after enlightenment, chop wood, fetch water.
outstanding Zen proverb
Do you chop wood and fetch water or do you chop wood and fetch water?
Haha I love this
About a year ago, I discovered a simple exercise to still the mind by focusing on nothing while allowing thoughts and emotions to come and go as they will for five minutes once or twice a day.
After a few weeks (depending on your baggage) I was able to sit with nothing going through my mind at all.
It's very liberating.
That method is also called “Sahaj Sadhana”, effortless meditation. It's very powerful :)
@@Asangoham Isn't it Sahaj Samadhi?
I've practiced zazen many years, I don't take it as a whim or toy. This is a rare gem amongst most of the zazen videos around the web. Thanks for the respect and care you show Dogen Zenji!
I live in Honolulu in a Soto temple and follow Dogen Zenji in a modern way. I think your approach is very pragmatic in introducing him to the world of now! Gasho and many thanks 😊🙏☺
Our scriptwriter was patient with this script. He immersed himself into the teachings of Dogen, and this was the final product. We're so glad you approve of it!
"You" don't practice zazen! I meant you can not practice it! If you think "you" are practicing then you will have to practice it many many lifetimes🙏
@@ozgursenturk11-11 Who is practicing it over many lifetimes? And if there is no continuation over lifetimes, as reincarnation is a far more drastic change than that of existence from moment to moment, what is the use? There is no memory, no personal immortality. I will neither become enlightened nor suffer karma in a future life because it will be a different person inheriting karma. The worse I could expect is suffering in some hell. Do not dip into denying this existence wholesale, especially due to two truths doctrine; after all, then I could simply rebut Buddhism by saying that there is no sufferer, therefore existence is not suffering; nor is there any way to realize that there is no sufferer, because there is no realizer or aspirant. So it is all just giving up and achieving nothing
@@TheEternalClown Buddhism already rebutted itself. It already accepts there is no sufferer, it's all about abiding in sunyata, or emptiness. Go give the Prajna paramita sutra, everything is already rebutted for you. Great stuff.
True. The Eyes of thousands of eyes is nothing other than the Consciousness.
Sat-Chit-Ananda Existence - Consciousness - Bliss
Master Dōgen was genius in this simplicity. He is absolutely right, I see people arguing about who is more/actually enlightened, all of this is nonsense. It is about the journey not the destination. One of the wisest men of history.
Wonderful! Thanks! Dogen's book Shobogenzo is a pearl in the realm of Zen.
I am truly grateful for the algorithms and timing of my mind to cross this vid.
I have visited Eiheiji in Japan about 5 or 6 years ago. At that time there were 200 monks there. I also bought the movie "Zen" which is all about Dogen's life when he went to China to get the true Buddhism in 1223 and his return to Japan in 1227. "Zen" is a wonderful movie and you will definitely love it!. Oh, I forgot. The complete movie is on RUclips. It is nearly the same as the movie I bought, only a few words have been changed and the conversations are not perfectly synced with the Japanese.......Sal : )
Master Dogen nailed it... with the idea that we are all here to compliment each other...
Thank you very much for sharing this video. Zazen is the jewel.❤
So well done and such an informative and interesting perspective on Dogen.
Don't fail to learn from the ever shifting forms of clouds appearing and fading in their greatness.
What do we do after enlightenment? We keep on keeping on. We continue.
Or as has been so succinctly stated so many times before.
"Before enlightenment we chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment we chop wood and we carry water."
Afterwards we are more careful what we do, what we say, and what we think.
We continue prayer and meditation.
We embrace all we can with compassion and benevolence.
Good luck.
Protect this channel creator at all cost....
I practise Zazen as I prepare my breakfast
And as I eat my breakfast
And as I wash my bowl.
You do?
Do you always steal breakfast from your bowl?
"You" don't practice zazen! I meant you can not practice it! If you think "you" are practicing then you will have to practice it many many lifetimes🙏
@@ozgursenturk11-11 the conventional I
Excellent comment 👌
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Sitting didn't keep me from getting tangled up, but it helped me untangle.
Such a wonderful succinct and sweet sharing of the essence of Dogen 🙏🏽🌸so beautiful and rich
Just finished Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism by John Powell; Shugden Controversy, and The Sound of Two Hands Clapping by Dreyfus. I was not enlightened from hundreds of pages of reading, but I experienced enlightenment from one chapter of Dogen’s Shobogenzo.
Feeling frustrated, learning the difference with Geluk Shugden and Dalai Lama’s Geluk. Analysing the difference ls and similarities between Sakya, Nyingma, Kagyu, Rimé, Gelug. Evaluating the value of debate and scholasticism in Gelug monasteries, evaluating the the value of sectarianism in Shugden and in Gelug. Admiring Rime, being shocked by the starvation, violence and rigidity of certain abbots and monks in the Gelug Monastery. Feeling more baffled, and bewildered, and even less knowledgeable than before, then experiencing enlightenment from Dogen. What a great man.
This is a really well-made video and I can imagine the massive amount of effort needed for this. I would love to see more in the future. Thank you!
Wow, thanks for the great wisdom.
Excellent lecture
Thank you. 🙏
Incredible. Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful
This educational video is very uplifting and a treasure to find. I saught to learn who Master Eihei Dōgen was from a quote of his used in the forward of Brian Doyle's book One Long River of Song. The quote was about ..."awakening into the ten thousand things." It spoke to me calling me to discover more about its origin & meaning. I loved this video. Thank you.
this is Worthy and Important - uncluttered and direct
Awesome, thank you.
I would love a Video about Ryōkan
Appreciate the knowledge passed here, found the last bit funny. It was all a content in the end.
Bravo! Beautiful! Homages! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ JAR
座禅 zazen’s gradual teachings ⚡️
from sitting well to seeing wells ⚡️
ascetic pursuits: zen[shin 禅神] ⚡️⚡️⚡️ JAR[RA] [壺 tsubo]
VERY NICE AND EDUCATING. Thanks for this..
Don't assume life is more complicated today, fuedal Japan was a rough place to live.
Great presentation! 🙏
Awesome 🙏
Good stuff 👏 👍
We are a part of everything and at the same time apart from everything there is no separation from everything and also no union with everything. It may sound insane but it's my realization.
Great videos
Yes.
once when I was a child, I use to chant a mantra all day and night, one day everything seems clear and sudden blissfulness surrounds me, after that my life takes a padigm shift, from then on whatever I thinks become a reality in my life, and I think that I Ttained samadhi that night, I think I am awakend at that moment, I am enlightened
At present I am doing trading in share market and earning around other people's yearly CTC IN A MONTH, WHATEVER I THINK MATERIALIZE
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before enlightenment, chop wood, fetch water..
after enlightenment, chop wood, fetch water..
-zen saying
Amazing video !! quality information always! I have a question, how does one arrive at a state of No Mind (stop thoughts), what exactly should be done to stop anxiety? Thank you 🙏🙏
In Zazen, thoughts are not stopped. It is the practice of "neither trying to think, nor trying not to think; just sitting with no deliberate thought" Dogen Zengi Rules for Meditation.
Anxiety, just like thoughts, will rise and fall. Just be there. Sit still and accept all that comes and goes but do not get involved. Just sit, for this is true enlightenment. Do not expect anything, all is already present.
Offered in compassion, for the good of all Being. ❤🙏
Beautiful video, truly a work of art. One thing I would add is that a more correct partial perspective would be that buddha-nature is not substance according to Dogen. He writes it is not a "something" at all. Furthermore, he writes "it has nothing to do with stuff like consciousness and object, substance and form." All of those terms are conceptual, partial perspectives on reality which create dualities.These might bring one aspect of reality to light, but at the same time they hide another. He writes "when one side is illuminated, the other remains in darkness." Consequently, Dogen tries very hard to avoid any dualistic interpretation of the buddha-nature. Like, for example, the duality of monism vs pluralism. He writes: "It (the buddha-nature) is neither a collection of seperate parts, nor a single uniform unity." It is rather like "the balling of a fist." In other words, the buddha-nature is rather like an action, or dynamism. We might say it is a universal flux of thing events. However, we must not confuse this conceptual, partial explanation of reality with the buddha-nature as such. Or as Dogen puts it: "Do not waste your time with the admiration of a painted rice cake!" Because when we cling to conceptual constructs about reality it seems like seperate independent essences actually exist, which hinders a direct experience of buddha-nature. The point is to actualize and actually experience the buddha-nature, for example during zazen practise.
Gassho 🙏
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Wow, i haven't really contemplated traceless enlightenment that way. I figured enlightenment was inherently free of ego and attaining that state by definition would not take on another identity rooted in mind. The idea of enlightenment is in a real sense as far away from actual enlightenment as any old idea or thought, after all there is a clear lucid understanding where awareness is residing. Its in thought and is the thought accompanied by a present being or are they lost in memory/time?
Advaita Vedanta... Master Dogen style. 🙏
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Rather than saying the Buddha nature, we can also be say the nature of consciousness, as this would eliminate the necessity for a master, as their is no virtuous being that would want this title. PD Riddle Of The Sages The Book Of Answers - ruclips.net/video/STvg8ris-mY/видео.html
True. The Eyes of thousands of eyes is nothing other than the Consciousness
… or God, as God is the Source Consciousness that causes all to Become, and ultimately that’s all there is 🕉
@@RhythmJunkie The word God derived from the word 'Gud' meaning good, in ancient texts. Let us agree that 'GOoD' is the source, and that is all there is 😇
1. Express the method verbally so that if there are any beings whom might reside in samsara can take the opportunity to enlighten themselves and repeat this answer.
Would a bird chirp all alone? Might as well since it is worth chirping about..
+1
Someone said, “If you hadn’t already found God you wouldn’t be looking for him/her”.
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Who is it talking about Buddha-nature ? 🤔
Why talk of Buddha-nature?
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It's all there and working beautifully already °
Nirvana and samsara are not two and not one...thus is called dogen...the source of the tao!
Your content and delivery is quite enjoyable. Thanks.🙂
There narrator keeps talking about ‘substance’ as though we are all of same substance because we are all Buddha Nature. This ‘substance way of thinking is not what Dogan’s. In the west it is John Locke In the east its Brahman. Dogan said all things are Buddha Nature meaning all things are impermanent. Not that we’re made of the one thing, substance. That is our nature. Realising this is to transcend the self.
Dogen didn't found the Soto Zen school, as a matter a fact he had no such desire. His followers founded it after his death, whether this was against his will or not is not very clear.
I am just a horse yet to be broken in. If I'm enlightened, I don't anything about it.
Good content but you need to stop putting ads right on the middle. Ruins the videos.
Why No master as we know has ever tried to understand about Mahavira (Jainism) as Buddha and Mahavira came almost same time and share a lot in common yet they differ in many ways.. Has anybody ever wondered who ever saw truth!!
There where probably people with the same expriences and insights before it was given a name.
Connects to all pristine wisdom across Hinduism and it's spiritual texts like Vedas, Bhagwat Geeta
Amenpeacebewithyou future present past in All dimensions for all eternity in the name of Jesus H Christ....................
Just notice that you can't see your own face, this is all you need.
I think I’ve heard Alan Watts say “you can’t look into your own eyes, or taste your own tongue”.
Get a grip!
The one that is in it does not talk about it, but lives it in a way that is noticed only by few!!!!!!!!
Zen is easy.....the explanations of Zen are confusingly complicated. Shows to go ya!
don't reify buddha nature and conflate monism with panpsychism. interpenetration is not the same
in buddhism there is no "substance" because that goes against Madhyamika.
Who says there is such a thing as 'enlightenment' at all? Perhaps it is only a subjective experience, a perspectival shift, but not towards the 'absolute truth' or a 'higher' state of mind, just a different perspective, for better or for worse. Definitely nothing connected to escaping the cycle of rebirth or exhausting karmic debts, both of which are unfounded faith-based ideas.
Who cares?. Do your Zazen, it’s good for your health. And calms down your buzzy speculating « inner chatter» . It wont make your life perfect, but it will give you more contentment and clairity
@@Ikaros23 I say this because of Buddhism's love affair with threats of awful hells, incarnations, reincarnation at all, seemingly endless labor, extreme obedience and detachment, too much Apollonian influence (esp. if you are a monk, which is really the only advisable direction if we live in the fucked-up 'Buddhist cosmology'). Outside of the beliefs, the practices are still viable.
@@TheEternalClown " Zen" and " Buddhism" is not real. A life of constant bliss don`t exist. The world is in constant change. And " Dukkha", that is the pain you experience from your speculations, worry`s about the existence of life ( your life). Maby there is reincarnation, maby it isn`t. The whole point of Soto Zen is to do your meditation, that is all you have control over. And all you need to worry about.
Your mind is greedy for enlightenment. And this greed, is what creates your suffering/discomfort. And narcissism ( your fake self image as a wise man) . I`m not saying this to troll you. Just stating the facts. That doing your meditation in the Shinkantaza way. That is " just sitting meditation", and quiting all these questions ( notice that chattering part of your mind, creates these questions on it`s own. Will most likely be good for your health. That is the " chattering" part of the mind will still down.
Start with 5-10 minutes a day with a timer. Just let your mind " wonder". That is don`t stress with the breath ( breath normaly ). Just try to have a stable posture ( it don`t need to be perfect). After some week`s you should start to notice that the world will seem a bit more " Zen" in your eyes, even if it is in constant " flux". And your thoughts about the afterlife will calm down ( you will find out about that when you are dead anyway)
Doesn t make sense. Prefer Sri Ramana Maharshi, totally rational and simple.
No. The path to enlightenment is not enlightenment even though Buddha nature is the same whether you're enlightened or not. You are enlightened only when you truly realize Buddha nature, not conceptually but psychologically. The realization that only "what is" exists (i.e. the realization of suchness, shunyata, lack of inherent essence, etc.) must be assimilated on a psychological level. The degree of assimilation of the latter translates into the difference between kensho and satori.
No.
Mu
High sounding nonsense.
The whole style, hectic cuts, flood of images, fast way of speaking is totally postmodern. This video is anti-zen.
:). I adore this style of editing videos.
Dogen interessiert sich auch nicht für Buddhas: Freiheit, mittlerem Weg und vollkommenen Wesen.
Nothing special