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I\u2019m enjoying some post-sesshin work time, preparing an outline for the upcoming online practice period focusing daily life and mutual polishing. For more, click here<\/a>, or contact wfzango1@gmail.com with questions. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As promised we worked with the passage from Dogen\u2019s Extensive Study<\/i> and had some good Zen fun while waking up at 3:30am and sitting much of the day. We\u2019re a small group and the people who are here are here because they want to be here.That clears the energy field enormously. <\/span><\/span> Seems like that would always be the case \u2013 but it isn\u2019t. <\/span><\/span>Anyway, when I offer a focus, gosh, they really pick it up. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The piece that\u2019s on my mind now is about how Dogen defines extensive study, the \u201c\u2026study and penetration of the ultimate limit \u2026 is \u2018I always care for this.'\u201d See more of the passage below in my previous post or click here<\/a> for the whole fascicle.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI always care for this\u201d refers to a moment when a monk asked Dongshan, \u201cWhich of the three bodies of Buddha doesn\u2019t fall into any category?\u201d Or what is the ultimate limit? What is freedom from the world of this and that? Dongshan said, \u201cI always care for this.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\n

The ultimate limit manifests in response to our caring for the details of our lives. Freedom from the world of this and that comes in embracing this and that. Planning a meal, cutting the onion, heating the oil. This is what we\u2019ll be doing in the 90-day training.<\/span>
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Bielefeldt, the translator, notes that the character that he translates as \u201cto care for\u201d could also be rendered, \u201c\u2019to entertain,\u2019 \u2018be intimate with;\u2019 but might also be understood as \u2018to take seriously.'\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Katagiri Roshi translated the line as \u201cI am always close to this.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To study and penetrate the ultimate limit also to study and be engulfed by the ultimate limit. Zen flips around like this and that.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When we care for the ultimate limit, we are intimate with it. It is so close that we are the host and entertain our guest. Seriously. <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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