Zen Page #2
- Year:
- 2009
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Dogen...
...forget even that you have
achieved enlightenment.
Yes.
Just as enlightenment is infinite...
...practice is also infinite.
Enlightenment and practice...
...are inextricably linked.
The Record of the Lineage.
The Record of the Transmission.
By the time that moon
is full, Dogen...
...you will be seeing it from Japan.
Wherever each of us is...
...you and I will always
see the same moon.
Dogen returns to Japan, 1227
Hey, wait!
Run!
Stop!
Move!
I'm cheap, c'mon.
Get moving!
I hear you've been seeing
an awful lot of that whore.
Dogen.
Surely that is beneath you.
Is it peculiar?
No...
This is the greatest form
of true practice.
Where are the others?
Most have gone into town.
On Promoting Zen Meditation.
learning meditation.
of repose and bliss...
...the practice-realization of
absolute enlightenment"
"On July 17th...
...of this year, 1227...
...Zen master Ju-ching...
...entered Nirvana at
the Tien-tung-shan temple. "
I am Koun Ejo...
...disciple of Bucchi Kakuan
of the Dharma sect.
I apologize for
my sudden rudeness...
...but can you tell me...
...what exactly are the teachings.
...of the new, true Buddhism
you speak of.
Before I discuss that with you,
there is something I want you to read.
Recently, I wrote
On Promoting Zen Meditation...
...so that many people
Would you, too,
like to sit in meditation?
shamelessly says...
...that he's brought the true teachings
of Buddha back from China.
This means that he is
maliciously slandering...
...our precious Buddhist tradition.
Just like the Nenbutsu and
the Dharma sects...
...it is a threat to our Buddhism.
Kennin Temple, Kennin Temple.
I can't read or write.
You're getting in the way
of my business.
Kennin Temple,
Kennin Temple.
Kennin Temple?
Don't you even know
Japanese words difficult...
So you're a foreign monk.
Kennin Temple, where?
I'll take you there,
but won't you buy me first?
I'm cheap.
Dogen is in Kennin Temple.
Dogen...
You thief!
Help me!
No! Kugyo, stop!
Dogen, move.
Kugyo, kill me!
What?
It is not your place to judge her.
As ruler it will be your job
to create a world, where...
...children like her do not
have to go hungry.
I am but a poor monk,
I regret...
...that I have no more to offer you.
Off you go, now.
Dogen...
I am Dogen.
Huh.
May I help you?
Excuse me...
Ji-uen.
Why are you here?
I have come to fulfill
Kugyo's promise.
Kugyo's promise?
"If you can establish a new Buddhism,
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