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Originally Posted by AbodhiSky
I loved your quote better than the zen one.
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For me both say the same thing.
Dogen sought to
realise non-duality
within duality. He saw each moment
Now as being complete in itself
yet there is movement towards Buddha.
All in keeping with the famous ten ox herding pictures where the last picture depicts the sage returning to the market place.
D.T.Suzuki speaks of the full realisation of
suchness as becoming once again the Tom, D*cks or Harrys we have always been.
It is the trajectory not of up, up and away, but of return, where this world is not betrayed for some imagined "other".
I do not equate "unshakeable deliverance of mind" (which according to the Majjhima Nikaya is the Heartwood of the Dharma) with "supreme peace" as such.
Again, non-duality is not that "all is one" but that All is not two. A subtle difference.
What we observe need not necessarily be the past. It
can be eternally new.