Thirty seven items of Bodhi was advocated at Entuji in Krashiki city Okayama in 2016. Kando Inoue roshi has advocated Dogen’s Shobogenzo through his entire life in Japan.
Thirty-seven items of Bodhi are considered as the methods to get enlightened in Hinayana Buddhism. However, Master Dogen did not discriminate the two Buddhist schools, Mahayana and Hinayana. He explained that there existed only the Buddhism that the Buddha taught. Dogen Zenji advocates this Thirty-seven items of Bodhi to explain the true way of practice. What he preaches unfolds differently from that of Hinayana school. It is not the practice to improve ourselves by observing ourselves as object but it is the way to clarify our true nature provided originally by learning ourselves. 
Kando Inoue roshi succeeded Master Dogen’s teaching and makes us practice the basic of Zen; to observe birth and death rightly, pure-sitting. He preaches us that the practice is to be in the state here and now as it is, as the working of six organs without inserting our thoughts, the way thinking, and views. 
The Four abodes of mindfulness are the first of the Thirty-seven items of Bodhi. In his writings, Master Dogen speak from the perspective of enlightenment, and Master Kando also speaks from that perspective.That is "We are already the body and mind of our original Dharma nature, so we do not need to practice now to make ourselves splendid.”
Master Dogen says “the observation that the body is not pure” is the Buddha’s seeing the morning star. It is not we clean ourselves up because we are dirty. As the Buddha experienced, we should realize that we are in the state of enlightenment. 
What the Buddha realized is that the working of body and mind is carried on before we recognize it. When he saw the morning star, he realized the reality for the first time. There is the difference between the reality and what we perceive. That is why we need zazen practice as the Buddha did. We need zazen practice of non-thinking, the only way to get enlightened. 
Kando Roshi shows us how to be free from discretion. He insists that the practice is not just during zazen, but all the time you should be away from thoughts, no matter what we are doing.
Once we realized, we will know we are inborn nature just like the Buddha. Then there will be nothing that bothers us and we can live freely.
You can appreciate the depth and accuracy of Kando Roshi's knowledge of words and phrases.
I am truly grateful for Knado roshi’s kind guidance.
                                                   Shizuka Tatsuta
                                                     Shimanto-cho,
                                                     Kochi-ken
                                                     Japan
                                                     2021 Feb.