Nonduality in the Zen Tradition, Kazuaki Tanahashi
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2015
- www.scienceandnonduality.com/
An excerpt of the Interview with Kazuaki Tanahashi featured in the SAND Anthology vol. 5.
Kazuaki Tanahashi, born in Japan and active in the United States since 1977, is an artist, writer, and worker for peace and the environment. Kaz’s one-stroke paintings, multi-color Zen circles, and calligraphy have been in solo exhibitions throughout the world. His publications include Brush Mind, Penetrating Laughter: Hakuin’s Zen and Art, Lotus, and Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen’s Shobo Genzo. Also, The Heart Sutra: Exploring Wisdom Beyond Wisdom is forthcoming from Shambhala Publications. He is the founding director of A World Without Armies and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. For more information: www.brushmind.net
Tanahashi's translation and commentary on "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo" is a masterpiece. It is very comprehensive. I love this book.
Thanks a lot Kaz !!!
Moon in a Dewdrop is a masterpiece translation of many of Dogen Zenji's writings. If you practice Zen (or non duality) it will serve you well to study this text. For me personally and as a bit of advice, Zen (particularly Soto Zen) is the most direct gate to understanding and more importantly experiencing non duality. Its a word, a concept, but not really that. And so when the word is insufficient we have practice (practice enlightenment). Give it a try.
as soon as he mentioned Moon in a Dewdrop i went "Yoooooo this is the guy who did that? Amazing!"
absolutely agree it's a masterpiece, there's a direct but beautiful artistry to his translation that compliments Dogen's thought perfectly. it's up there with my Complete Chuang Tzu for most treasured books.
Excellent video, thanks for posting, much appreciated : )
Love Kaz.
thank you for connecting Vedic tradition to Dogen in a line
The "student" is teaching, that makes you a master Kazuaki
We're all students, in a way...
The Master appears when the student stops seeking the master.
noted arigatou Gozaimashita Sensei.
Nice to hear authentic zen keyed to the Vedas, however much reinterpreted it has become. Still the same after all.
noted. The vedas. The upanishads. The dao de ching. The Quran. The bibles both of them. The sutras the tantras. Finding the similarities is easier than finding differences.
@Subho Deep Thakur Quran?
Non dual and duality are one
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."What exists] is now, all at once, one and continuous... Nor is it divisible, since it is all alike; nor is there any more or less of it in one place which might prevent it from holding together, but all is full of what is. (B 8.5-6, 8.22-24)" Parmenides the creator of western philosophy
Nondual ❤️❤️
"There is a huge difference between One and non-separate."
There is?
@@Refulgent_Rascal Just quoting him. To me it means that for one to think there is one-ness there must by definition also be not-oneness. Its really about "not denying separation" like he says at the end. I don't know. Its all language anyways.
@@openrealm yeah I still don't quite grasp it lol
He said that it’s more like Pluralism because Monism is another thing
Duality and Non - Duality are just words and perception they are the same
I see all life as cycles of life (auras/contraction/expansions). All never ending. Only re-cycling. Like the Zen brush circle. Only where the circle begins and ends, it is slightly off center and even overlaps. This overlap is where the contraction is the new expansion after sharing/receiving the information of all other cycles. The center of the overlap is the singularity and either side is the duality. This overlap is the great inefficiency of life. 'Ego'. Tornadoes, no pain/gain, Kali-Durga, tortoise/hare, supernovas, hick-ups, mistakes,. All life is this imperfect perfection of evolution.
You sound like someone in his mid 20s who might have taken few philosophy classes online or in college, watches few too many alan watts or anyone claiming to "teach" Buddhism videos on youtube without actually studying the scriptures and that coupled with wild (but clever) pattern seeking framework of imagination with no oversight to your own bias. and from your own assertiveness, I can see why you would believe your explanation should make sense to everyone else by the way you wrote it because it makes sense to your limited understanding of the religion itself.
Imagine Buddhism as a novel, scriptures as chapters but you only know the first 5-6 letters of the alphabet and all you're blabbering about is "Baba dada, bad bee dead. Bead be bace. Bada-ba-ba-ba" and you're thinking "I'm loving it, I'm making sense of this shit" but in actuality, all you're really doing is fingering some shit out your ass and now smearing it on everything you touch and next time someone who don't know better comes along thinking it's chocolate but in "reality" it's an infectious feces of the arrogantly immature mind that doesn't know when to stop spewing undigested shit with viruses on standby ready to latch on to some poor mind to continue this ongoing chain of non-sense!
Please stop!
@@iamsyrex why are you agitated sir ? Try zazen
@@iamsyrex you should use a shit stick
To Talk of Truth Before
you Have Experienced It,
Always leaves you looking,
Like
(a Looking
a drawing of a Banana
You are the Right Odor, Shape, and size , but You remain unpeeled in A Drawing and You Have Not Tasted t he Inner Truth, of which You are seeking
, or you are just Drawing It Prettily with Your Mind. Zen Banana
The question “What is Zen?” is impossible to answer.
*"...they cannot be separated , there is separation ."* 🤔
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How does an "enlightened" person know they are enlightened?
All are at various levels of enlightenment. The higher levels 'see' beyond the 3rd dimension and the 5 senses. The 'All one' is palpable to them. Experiential exposure to 'enlightened ones' (things/beings) opens light channels w h e n ready. It cannot be taught. It can only be shared (shone upon, of which when ready, it is absorbed). Being attracted to it with an openess to consider it i s readiness.
Why does an "enlightened" person care if they are enlightened?
I see this as,- The most enlightened person is the average person on the streets/office etc. They are the most balanced. Those under/over enlightened are the ones that vibrate 'too low/high' (are the ones that cause trouble. so to say). For every spiritual claiming to be in posession of the divine truth, there ia a corporate raider to balance that energy. Like when one creates a shield for defence (spiritual warrior) it automatically creates a sword elsewhere to engage it.
Meaning,- They don t care !
Please do not spread bullshit, please. You do not know this to be true. You assumptions are horridly incorrect and dangerously arrogant.
Words are dual.
Cast away your words...
And return to the non-dual.
DanDe
Even he is confused with all the bullcrap he’s learned from fake gurus. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life, that’s the only thing certain. He’s quite unsure of what he’s teaching.
When we allow ourselves to be immersed in the unknown, what known conclusion is nesseary? What is the unknown? It is what you are encountering.