complete action
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Summary
In these texts, complete action is acting fully: totally involved in what we are doing, without a person who is watching and without a viewpoint from which to look at it. When gardening we are only gardening. Buddhism recommends that we act completely.
Part of ↑ action and ethics ↑ practice
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when we’re acting, we lose our feeling of reflection and we’re totally involved in what we’re doing
Genjo-koan 2: Delusion and Self-Image Summer 2002 — Genjo-koan
The most important text
- Shoaku Makusa 2: Not Doing Wrong as a State ●●● Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusaa state we already have · cause and effect in a flash · fullness of action · mind empty · simple action, not supernatural powers
When we do something fully, there is no ‘I’ to watch ourselves.
Other texts
- Uji 1: Time Is the Present ●●● Winter 2004 — Ujicomplete action · clarifying the real state
we need to act, we can’t experience it by thinking about it
- Genjo-koan 2: Delusion and Self-Image ●●● Summer 2002 — Genjo-koanmobile phone while driving · total involvement in action
when we’re acting, we lose our feeling of reflection and we’re totally involved in what we’re doing
- Bussho 2: Balance in Action ●●● Summer 2004 — Busshomind empty · viewpoint of action
The mind is always busy, when the mind is not busy, there is no mind
- Genjo-koan 1: Four Viewpoints ●●● Summer 2002 — Genjo-koanviewpoint of action
the viewpoint of action is no viewpoint, because when we're acting we stop analysing
- The Eight Truths of a Great Person ●●● June 2006 — Padmafarmamind empty
It means throwing away the person who is watching, and completely concentrating on what we're doing.
- Kuge 5: Compassion and Freedom in Action ●●● Winter 2007 — Kugeactivity for its own sake
There’s always a point in doing something for itself
- Zazen According to Sawaki ●●● Summer 2004 — Yoko Luetchfordcomplete action
Whenever you have breakfast, you just eat fully, whenever you clean your bedroom, you just clean your bedroom thoroughly
- Uji 2: An Alternative to Linear Time ●●● Winter 2004 — Ujipure activity
we also have activities which demand the whole of us, and the feeling is different
- Zazen from Four Viewpoints ●●● June 2005 — Lotus Centrebeing in the zone
When you're playing tennis or some game, if you think about what you're doing at the critical time, you lose.
- Bussho 2: This World, Not Heaven ●●● Summer 2005 — Busshowords with nobody speaking
you lose awareness of speaking. There’s nobody speaking, there are words but nobody speaking
- Ikka-no-myoju 2: Undivided Reality ●●● Summer 2006 — Ikka-no-myojuonly gardening while gardening
what I discovered recently is that when I’m gardening I’m only gardening, but I didn’t realise that before
- Shoaku Makusa 1: Not Doing Wrong Here and Now ●●● Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusacomplete action
we can say complete action is clear just before and afterwards it’s something satisfactory
- Uji 4: Coming into the Present ●●● Summer 2007 — Ujiactivity for its own sake
we all practice some kind of activity, not because we're apt to plant carrots, but just for its own sake
- Effort for Its Own Sake ●●● July 2009 — Dibbavanacovering up action with thoughts
So although they're acting, they're covering it up with their thoughts about something else.
- Dogen’s Teaching as a Way of Living ●●● September 2013 — Banský Studeneccellist thinking about supper · rock climbing
But after rock climbing, I felt, now I feel satisfied. And then in Tokyo, I went to this meeting where people were practising meditation.
- The Heart Sutra: Labels and Reality ●●● September 2013 — Banský Studenecstate which is empty
the state which is empty is the state we have when we are acting fully
- Action and Result, Living in the Present ●●● May 2014 — Banská Štiavnicabeing in the zone
Not to think about the future, but just to perform now. Sports people call it being in the zone.
- Reading Dogen from Experience ●●● May 2014 — Banský Studeneccomplete action
From the Buddhist point of view, all these things are incomplete action. Buddhism recommends that we act completely.
- Action as the Center of Buddhism ●●●covering up action with thoughts
our mind covers up the simple nature of what we are doing in the present with interpretations, judgments, intentions, hopes, fears
- Genjo-koan 4: Realisation as Wholeness ●●● Summer 2002 — Genjo-koanrock climbing
when I was hanging on a rope, I had to act, otherwise I’d fall
- Introductions 3: A Middle Without Intention ●●● Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chaptersrock climbing
in climbing I was forced into a state of wholeness; if I think, I fall off
- Bussho 1: Fully Manifesting Existence ●●● Summer 2004 — Busshozazen as slicing bread
So we're training ourselves to slice bread, that's what Zazen is, it's slicing bread
- Bussho 5: Our Fundamental Nature ●●● Winter 2005 — Busshorock climbing
racing motorcycles or in my case rock climbing was a way in my case to get rid of my busy mind
- Uji 2: A Crack in Our View of Time ●●● Summer 2007 — Ujichopping down brambles
In one fluid act, you catch hold of it and cut it.
- MMK 3: Cutting Through Categories ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarikaself disappearing in a saxophone solo
when he plays a solo with his group, he disappears
- Opposites and Being Upright ●●● July 2009 — Brnorock climbing
I found rock climbing and mountaineering gave an opposite to thinking and worry
- Kodo Sawaki and Concrete Teaching ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavanaplaying the violin while nowhere
so that I played perfectly, but actually I was nowhere
- Genjo-koan: Being Awake Is Being Here ●●● May 2014 — Banský Studenecbeing in the flow
This is a common experience when we're in the flow, whether as a musician or a sports person
- Zazen Is Not Meditation ●●● July 2021 — Skalní faramind empty
A little baby who can sit up sits like this: empty mind, beautiful posture
- One Moon, Two Moons ●●●covering up action with thoughts
Thus we often “taint” our actions with thoughts on how to act right
Keywords
Ideas (12) mind empty4 covering up action with thoughts3 activity for its own sake2 viewpoint of action2 a state we already have cause and effect in a flash clarifying the real state fullness of action pure activity state which is empty total involvement in action words with nobody speaking
Themes (1) simple action, not supernatural powers
Images and stories (10) rock climbing5 being in the zone2 being in the flow cellist thinking about supper chopping down brambles mobile phone while driving only gardening while gardening playing the violin while nowhere self disappearing in a saxophone solo zazen as slicing bread