<\/span>\nAnway, here\u2019s a little piece of the Hashimoto Roshi commentary on Dogen\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Doshin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span>\u00a0(<\/span><\/span><\/span>Way Mind<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span>) that my brother and I are working on, ever so slowly. Hashimoto Roshi, as you may know,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>was the teacher that the young Katagiri attended for three years at Eiheiji whose deep and steady practice impressed him so much from the first moment they met. I write a little about Hashimoto in the book.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe word \u201cWay\u201d in \u201cWay Mind\u201d has the same meaning as the word \u201cWisdom\u201d like in the phrase \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span>unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0(Sanskrit,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span>annutara samyaksam bodhi<\/span><\/span><\/span>).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\nThe word \u201cMind\u201d is the Buddha Mind within the limits of the manifest Buddha. To raise the Buddha Mind is to raise the Way Mind.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\nThis Buddha Mind has two aspects. First, do anything you are doing toward the Way Mind.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Second, proclaim the Way Mind. These are the Way Mind path.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\nThe most supreme important thing of all is to do anything with Way Mind.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\nIt is striking to me that \u201cWay\u201d (like in getting somewhere) means \u201cWisdom\u201d (like the end of the journey).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>This is wisdom like \u201cgnosis,\u201d by the way, and not like \u201cstuffing your head up with knowledge\u201d (<\/span><\/span>see the Wikipedia entry for \u201cprajna\u201d by clicking here<\/span><\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe \u201cShin\u201d of \u201cDoshin\u201d is usually translated \u201cmind\u201d and also means \u201cheart,\u201d \u201cwill,\u201d and \u201cessence.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMind arises within the limits, in the very skin bag itself, of the manifest Buddha. It is not something split off from the ephemeral world, including our thinking and talking. As such, Mind fills the ditches and moats.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nEasy to say, hard to practice. And hard to say, easy to practice.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThen there is the two aspects. Moving towards the Way Mind in everything we do and the Way Mind proclaiming itself. The word we\u2019ve translated as \u201cproclaiming\u201d also could be \u201cheralding,\u201d \u201cannouncing,\u201d or \u201cpioneering.\u201d So the Way Mind pioneers itself.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nSometimes we consciously endeavor to practice and sometimes we roll like a black ball through the dark night (I think Keizan said that). Both are Way Mind.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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