{"id":470,"date":"2008-11-21T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/11\/leaping\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T19:02:00","slug":"leaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/11\/leaping.html","title":{"rendered":"Leaping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Above is our doggie Bodhi doing some leaping through the field. And below is a provisional translation of the third line of the <\/span><\/span>Genjokoan<\/span><\/span><\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Since the buddha way intrinsically\u00a0leaps from<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0abundance and deficiency, there is arising and perishing, delusion and realization, living beings and buddhas.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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The issue here may not be so much about transcendence or immanence (as I suggested in the last post about this line a week ago) but about leaping <\/span><\/span>intrinsically from<\/span><\/span><\/span> every flipping thing. It\u2019s about living an alive life instead of tripping along like a half dead horse.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cI came that they might have life and have it to the full,\u201d says Jesus in one of the Gospels.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Or like Bonnie Myotai Treace once said, \u201cYou can\u2019t live a bunny life and write tiger poems\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Last night in the Dogen Study Group we digested this line of <\/span><\/span>Genjokoan <\/span><\/span><\/span>some more\u00a0with a new twist.\u00a0My brother, adept at Japanese language and especially legal Japanese, argues that the literal translation for \u201cabundance and deficiency\u201d is really \u201cabundance-not.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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So \u201c\u2026the buddha way intrinsically leaps from not-abundance\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Other translators (and the commentators that I have access too) seem to agree that \u201cabundance\u201d refers to when all things are the buddhadharma (the first line of <\/span><\/span>Genjokoan<\/span><\/span><\/span>) and that \u201cnot\u201d or \u201cdeficiency\u201d refers when all dharmas are <\/span><\/span>not<\/span><\/span><\/span>-self there is no delusion, no realization, etc. (the second line of the <\/span><\/span>Genjokoan). <\/span><\/span><\/span>So the buddha way has two faces \u2013 abundance (the full flowering of the 10,000 things) and deficiency (the utter and complete lack of anything).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Another interpretation, however, is that Dogen is saying something else \u2013 he\u2019s suggesting a third way, not at all hindered by the first two, very much like thinking, not-thinking, and nonthinking. The buddha way, Dogen might be saying, leaps from not-abundance (akin to not-thinking) and is non-abundance, non-deficiency.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Or as Katagiri Roshi once said, \u201cEach thing has the virtuous power of being free from itself.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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This is really humbling. The world is not doing anything to us. Instead,\u00a0\u201c\u2026flowers fall when <\/span><\/span>we<\/span><\/span><\/span> cling to them. Weeds grow when <\/span><\/span>we<\/span><\/span><\/span> dislike them.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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More quickly than we can snap our fingers, we make our world. When we see the world through the lens of clinging, we see flowers falling. When we see the world through the lens of dislike, we see weeds.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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And as Wild Fox student Gary once said, \u201cThe universe seems to be okay with that.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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How about you?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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