RG ST 21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Caodong School, Buddha-Nature, Zazen
20 Nov 2018
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D gen views k an practice as inferior to zazen. Seated meditation was superior, but acknowledged the use of koans to be helpful. Instead, he advocates his genj k an in the sh b genz . This k an denotes the manifestation and attainment . Actualizing the fundamental point of truth or reality. Reality cannot be separated from one"s actions and experience. Mind-only experience outside of simply cognition, full body-mind. Relation to natural world: fish and water, bird and airis life. Natural medium, environment to express its nature; can"t function out of experience their medium. If one refuses to act before understanding the nature of life, one will not achieve. The only reality for an individual is her present action, nothing more, nothing less. Everything else is a conceptual overlay interpretation. There is no transcendent goal or enlightenment to seek. Enlightenment consists in merely living, acting, and being in the present moment.
