{"id":419,"date":"2009-01-08T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/01\/crooked-belly-button\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:06:00","slug":"crooked-belly-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/01\/crooked-belly-button.html","title":{"rendered":"Crooked Belly Button"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Woman's<\/p>\n

As I mentioned recently, I\u2019ve started to work on \u201cBodhi Mind\u201d or \u201cWay Heart,\u201d <\/span><\/span>looking at some translations of Dogen and playing around with a commentary by Hashimoto Roshi. It might become a book project, another six years in the making.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then yesterday a thought bubble passed through about an old Katagiri riff that started with something about \u201cWay Nose,\u201d which means something like being able to pick up the scent of the dharma<\/a> and follow through, upstream.<\/p>\n

Katagiri Roshi continued,

<\/span>In ancient times, people were more straightforward toward the truth than human beings in our days. We aren\u2019t straightforward. So we have a technical term, \u201ccrooked belly button.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It is impossible to contort your belly button because your belly button is always in the center of your situation. But when your belly button is crooked \u2013 toward the right, left, up, or down \u2013 even a little bit you lose the center of your life.
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<\/span>Zen students really have crooked belly buttons. <\/span><\/em>
<\/span><\/em>
<\/span>Are you a gentleperson accepting Buddha\u2019s teaching straightforwardly without any complaints?<\/span><\/em>
<\/span><\/em>
<\/span>No, you can\u2019t say so. You always discuss from your viewpoint. I don\u2019t mean you should be blind but I don\u2019t think it is a good idea for your belly button to be so crooked.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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