,\u201d literally \u201cseeing [true] nature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nBelow, I\u2019ll first offer you a passage (marked \u201cExhibit A\u201d) from Zen Sand (p. 7) and then a selection from the Genjokoan by old Soto man Dogen (\u201cExhibit B\u201d). The following passage from Hori, by the way, also makes an important distinction between samadhi and insight that I encourage you practitioners to pay careful attention too.<\/p>\n
Exhibit A:
Kensho, the experience of awakening, is more than merely the state of concentrated <\/span><\/span>samadhi<\/span>. When the <\/span><\/span>Great Doubt<\/span> has totally taken over the self, there is no more distinction between self and other, subject and object. There is no more differentiation, no more attachment. This is merely <\/span><\/span>samadhi <\/span>and not <\/span><\/span>kensho. Kensho<\/span> is not the self\u2019s withdrawal from the conventional world, but rather the selfless self breaking back into the conventional world. It is only when this samadhi has been shattered that a new self arises. This self returns and again sees the things of the world as objects, but now as empty objects; it again thinks in differentiated categories and feels attachment, but now with insight into their emptiness.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nExhibit B:
To study buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be verified by all things. To be veri\u00acfied by all things is to let the body and mind of the self, and body and mind of others, drop off. There is a trace of realization that cannot be grasped. We endlessly keep expressing the un\u00acgraspable trace of realization.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDogen didn\u2019t often used the word kensho<\/span><\/span> and when he did he tended to belittle it and likened it to \u201c\u2026playing in the entranceway, still short of the vital path of emancipation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nNevertheless, what Dogen describes above \u2013 studying, forgetting, verifying, dropping self and other, ungraspable realization, endless expression \u2013 certainly has strong resonance with Hori\u2019s words above \u2013 no distinction between self and other, selfless self breaking back into the conventional world ( \u201c\u2026the 10,000 dharmas advancing and practicing\/verifying through the self is satori\u201d), thinking again but with insight into emptiness (e.g., nonthinking).<\/p>\n
The rusty barrel has been in the woods a long time \u2013 but it leaked from the start.<\/p>\n
The most important point, whether you identify with the Rinzai line and use the word kensho<\/span><\/span> or with the Soto line and use \u201cverification,\u201d is to practice in such a way that you might nod and smile to yourself, no longer a believer or a by-stander. <\/span><\/p>\n
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