“This teaching of casting off body and mind articulated by both Hongzhi and Dogen points to the essence of silent illumination, which is simply focusing awareness on the totality of self to return to and enact the bright shining empty field that is our own fundamental nature.”

― Taigen Dan Leighton, Cultivating the Empty Field

#zen #dogen #hongzhi #shikantaza

Morning Meditation
‘All dharmas are innately amazing beyond description.
Perfect vision has no gap.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue

https://buddhismnow.com/2023/02/03/morning-meditation-perfect-vision/

#Buddhism #Hongzhi #Zen #meditation

A little more intro. I’m also a student of #Zen #Buddhism and have the wild dream of learning #ClassicalJapanese and #ClassicalChinese to read some of my favorite texts in the original (#Dogen #Hongzhi). Would love to follow more #Buddhist mastodoners if I can find you.

#PinnedPost vanished, so current pinned post correctly identifies itself as second in a series, oh, well.

"The water is clear right down to the bottom,
fish lazily swim on.
The sky is vast without end,
birds fly far into the distance."

-- #Hongzhi