{"id":6349,"date":"2018-12-13T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2018-12-13T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:30:21","slug":"dogen-the-true-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/13\/dogen-the-true-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogen – The true person"},"content":{"rendered":"

True person manifest throughout the ten quarters of the world
\nby Eihei Dogen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

English version by Steven Heine<\/font><\/p>\n

The true person is
\nNot anyone in particular;
\nBut, like the deep blue color
\nOf the limitless sky,
\nIt is everyone, everywhere in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a> \u2014 from The Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace<\/a>, by Steven Heine<\/font><\/p>\n


\n\/ Image by hello, beautiful<\/a> \/<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

A beautiful morning here in Colorado. A cloudless blue sky fills every empty space and stretches its canopy across the heavens, reaching out in all directions\u2026<\/p>\n

True to Zen form, Dogen cuts right to the essential here.<\/p>\n

Look for the true person deeply enough, and we find it. We find it in ourselves. But not in ourselves in a particular way. It is not in oneself while absent in another. We are quietly startled to discover that this true person is not contained by our skin. It does not stop at the edges of our lives. It does not even restrict itself to the borders of our far-flung thoughts. No, it flows out in all directions, utterly heedless of walls and distances and the greedy human mind.<\/p>\n

But, like the deep blue color
\nOf the limitless sky,
\nIt is everyone, everywhere in the world.<\/i><\/p>\n

Find that one. Not only will you have found the true person, you will have discovered your very self spread out across existence!<\/p>\n


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<\/a>Recommended Books: Eihei Dogen<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nThe Poetry of Zen: (Shambhala Library)<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nThe Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nThe Soul is Here for its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Japan (1200 \u2013 1253) Timeline<\/a>
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Dogen, sometimes respectfully referred to as Dogen Zenji, was a key figure in the development of Japanese Zen practice and the founder of the Soto Zen sect.<\/p>\n

Dogen was born about 1200 in Kyoto, Japan. At the age of 17, he was formally ordained as a Buddhist monk. Considering the Japanese Buddhism of the time to be corrupt and influenced by secular power struggles, Dogen traveled to China to discover the heart of the Dharma by studying Ch\u2019an (Zen) Buddhism at several ancient monasteries.<\/p>\n

Much of the Ch\u2019an Buddhism he explored utilized koans and \u201cencounter dialogues\u201d to startle the consciousness into enlightenment, but Dogen was critical of this practice. Instead, he was drawn to the teachings of silent meditation.<\/p>\n

Dogen returned to Japan in 1236. He left the politicized environment of Kyoto, and settled in the mountains and snow country of remote Echizen Province, where he established his own school of Zen, the Soto school.<\/p>\n

While he proved to be a talented writer and poet, the core of Dogen\u2019s teaching was to transcend the mind\u2019s addiction to language and form in order to become fully present and recognize one\u2019s inherent enlightenment.<\/p>\n

More poetry by Eihei Dogen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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