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The water is clear right through to the bottom;<\/span><\/em><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA fish goes lazily along.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe sky is vast without horizon;<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA bird flies far far away.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIn what follows, Dogen is in italics; Dosho in normal type:\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThat which has no shore as its boundary\u2026\n<\/p><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIs not nothing.\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u2026this is what is meant by clear water penetrated \u201cright through to the bottom.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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This is what is meant by formless form \u2013 the coffin is empty and the sound of a bell fades off over the hill.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIf a fish goes through this \u201cwater,\u201d it is <\/span><\/em>not<\/span> that it does <\/span><\/em>not<\/span> \u201cgo;\u201d<\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/div>\nNor that it <\/span>does<\/span><\/em> go. Or as Bob Dylan puts it, \u201cSomething is [going] but you don\u2019t know what it is, do you Mr. (and Ms.) Jones?\u201d This <\/span>going<\/span><\/em> is forgetting the self. <\/span><\/p>\nThe degree of the \u201cgoing\u201d that penetrates \u201cright through to the bottom\u201d is the \u201cpath of the bird,\u201d along which the wholebody does not \u201cgo.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\nIt is doing not-going. The wholebody with no-eyes sees. The wholebody with no-ears hears. Still, when practicing the path of the bird, what traces are left? Investigate and verify through the practicing wholebody.<\/span><\/div>\n
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