shobogenzokandoのblog

This blog presents Kando Inoue roshi's activities, mainly his dharma talks of shobogenzo in English. Kando is the top advocate of shobogenzo by Zen Master Dogen.

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This is a collection of Zen Master Dogen’s essays, Fukan-zazengi, A Universal Recommendation for Zazen; Shobogenzo Genjo-koan, The realized Universe; Shobogenzo Sanjusiti-bon-Bodai-bunpo Shinenju, Thirty-seven Elements of Bodhi The Four Abodes of Mindfulness.

Master Dogen is the founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan. He is the 52nd generation as Zen patriarch. He was transmitted the Buddha-Dharma from his teacher Rujing in China. In order to transmit the Dharma-Seal to his disciples, he wrote 95 volumes Zen essays, Shobogenzo, The Right-Dharma-Eye Treasury. 

In 2015, I came across the teachings of Master Inoue Gien and realized that Dogen's teachings are about inheriting this enlightenment. All of his writings can be read from the perspective of enlightenment. Master Inoue Gien and his fifth son, Inoue Kando Roshi, have rightly inherited the Dharma of Zen Master Dogen, and have passed on the true Dharma through the advocacy of the Shobogenzo throughout their lives.

Gien Inoue roshi says that the enlightenment in Buddhism is to go through to the root of our origination that we are born without knowing. Though we are now able to live in the awakened state, toward it a doubt arises with thoughts and discrimination, which becomes a problem. To realize truly the fundamental mistake bottomless is the enlightenment of the Dharma, he indicates. And everybody can be through like Zen adepts by the practice being free from thoughts and discrimination. The deportment of the practice is not to fall into thoughts and discrimination, to be free from your views, and to be just as the functioning of the six organs as tools. When keeping suchlike practice, you can come to attain the state as the Buddha-Dharma in the real world, you are able to live on the activity free and limitless, he preaches. 

I am now studying under Kando Inoue roshi. For four years, having transcribed Kando roshi’s talks of Shobogenzo, I learned that transcription should be expressed as it is without interpretation. Like Zen practice, being free from thoughts, views, and discrimination, we can accomplish our work exceedingly, which I have found. On translation I take the same method. I have been careful not to use conceptional words and the words expressing thoughts and ideas. I believe that this is still in its early stages. If I really know the content of words, I may come not to care about what words I use.  

In his book "Genni-bi", Master Inoue Kando says, "There is no Buddha Dharma without enlightenment. There should not be such a thing.”

The Master Dogen’s ‘Genjho Koan’ explains what we need to practice in order to clarify our own state of enlightenment, the original face. To be aware that all things are unfolding before our perception, we need to do non-thinking zazen at any cost.

I am truly grateful to Kando Inoue roshi for his generosity and kind guidance. 

I am very thankful that I could run across many English translations of Dogen’s works by experienced people. 

                                                                                       


                                                                                                          
                                                                                                          
                                                                                        

From wikipedia        dogen wikipedia

Dōgen Zenji
 (道元禅師; 19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253),[1] also known as Dōgen Kigen (道元希玄), Eihei Dōgen (永平道元), Kōso Jōyō Daishi (高祖承陽大師), or Busshō Dentō Kokushi (仏性伝東国師), was a Japanese Buddhist priest and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan.

Originally ordained as a monk in the Tendai School in Kyoto, he was ultimately dissatisfied with its teaching. His main cocern and traveled to China to seek out what he believed to be a more authentic Buddhism. He remained there for five years, finally training under Tiantong Rujing, an eminent teacher of the Chinese Caodong lineage. Upon his return to Japan, he began promoting the practice of zazen (sitting meditation) and wrote some books about zazen.  Fukan zazengi and Bendōwa.

He eventually broke relations completely with the powerful Tendai School, and, after several years of likely friction between himself and the establishment, left Kyoto for the mountainous countryside where he founded the monastery Eihei-ji, which remains the head temple of the Sōtō school today.

Dōgen is known for his extensive writing including his most famous work, the collection of 95 essays called the Shōbōgenzō, but also Eihei Kōroku, a collection of his talks, poetry, and commentaries, and Eihei Shingi, the first Zen monastic code written in Japan, among others.

Dogen's early years
 

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