tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2452212375265023297.post2967164050493952297..comments2023-04-12T05:38:07.136-07:00Comments on The Dojin Roku: Beginner's MindKoro Kaisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04519201399219325579noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2452212375265023297.post-62285888133594077472012-06-21T07:42:22.903-07:002012-06-21T07:42:22.903-07:00I have practiced Zen for 40+ years, in both formal...I have practiced Zen for 40+ years, in both formal and informal training, one opens the other, the narrow (formal) and the wide (everyday life), not any difference but..<br />My biggest inspiration was working with my masters Sochu Sukuki Roshi and Kyudo Nakagawa Roshi,<br />Irmgard Schoegel changed my life in just one interview. So homage to them as deep Dharma friends.<br />So I will get to the point and stop waffling, I have found that being open and responsive to all Dharma teachings, via intuition, serendidipty or intentionality to be within the 4 Bhodhisattva vows, "the dharmas are endless I vow to master them all"<br />So Beginners Mind, what else is there?<br />"Firewood becomes ash, and it does not become firewood again. Yet, do not suppose that the ash is future and the firewood past. You should understand that firewood abides in the phenomenal expression of firewood, which fully includes past and future and is independent of past and future. Ash abides in the phenomenal expression of ash, which fully includes future and past. Just as firewood does not become firewood again after it is ash, you do not return to birth after death. <br /> <br /> Genjo Koan Dogen Zenji.<br /><br />So again Beginners Mind.<br />So the dharma, I have found great openness,joy by practicing Lojong and Tonglen in my daily life.<br />Of course Zazen contains all this, but another view from a different mountain sometimes illuminates the mountain one sits in/on.<br />Peace in Dharma, Bhodichitta,<br />Peter HodgkinsonMutual Realityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04416467521931229126noreply@blogger.com