{"id":492,"date":"2008-10-25T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/10\/this-blooming-falling-life\/"},"modified":"2008-10-25T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T09:22:00","slug":"this-blooming-falling-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/10\/this-blooming-falling-life.html","title":{"rendered":"This Blooming, Falling Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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An earthworm is cut in two pieces; the two pieces are both moving. In which piece do you think Buddha-nature exists?<\/span><\/div>\n

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In the <\/span>Genjokoan<\/span><\/span> Dogen slices our practice into four pieces: when all things are the Buddhadharma, when all things are without self, leaping out from abundance and absence, and \u201c\u2026yet\u00a0<\/span>in attachment blossoms fall, and in aversion weeds spread.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

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Which piece has the Buddha-nature?\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Just no delusion.<\/span><\/div>\n

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When all things are the radiant blooming of \u00a0Great Perfection, they are just that. When the Great Death comes and all things are without self, there is just without. Our practice is not to cling to either foci like a ghost or slump into oblivion like a corpse.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Our practice leaps out from fullness and lack, from many and one, from love and hate.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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When we see forms with our <\/span>whole<\/span> body\u2011mind, and when we hear sounds with our <\/span>whole<\/span> body\u2011mind, we understand them <\/span>intimately<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Our clinging and aversion too \u2013 wholeheartedly understand them intimately!\u00a0<\/div>\n
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How is it for you?<\/div>\n
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