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Summary
In the chapter Bussho (The Buddha-nature) Dogen writes that the Buddha-nature is always Total Existence. In these texts, to fully manifest existence is just to be as we are here and now, beyond the concepts of existence and non-existence: we are buddha-nature rather than have it.
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to fully manifest existence is just to be as we are here and now
Bussho 2: Balance in Action Summer 2004 — Bussho
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- Bussho 1: Fully Manifesting Existence ●●● Summer 2004 — Busshoability accumulated day by day · existence and non-existence · fully manifesting existence
This phrase “fully manifest existence” which I've concocted holds a kind of fullness of being in the present
Other texts
- Bussho 1: Having Buddha-Nature ●●● Summer 2005 — Busshohaving and being · I am a cold
what I’ve picked out is the difference between having something and being something
- Bussho ●●● Shobogenzofully manifesting existence
The Buddha-nature is always Total Existence, for Total Existence is the Buddha-nature.
- Buddha-nature ●●● Shobogenzo · Busshofully manifesting existence
Buddha-nature is fully manifesting existence, and fully manifesting existence is the nature of a buddha.
- Bussho 2: Balance in Action ●●● Summer 2004 — Busshofully manifesting existence
to fully manifest existence is just to be as we are here and now
- Bussho 3: Beyond the Process View ●●● Summer 2004 — Busshofully manifesting existence
a seed is a seed, is a seed, is a seed, and that’s what Master Dogen means by “fully manifesting existence”
- Bussho 2: Without a Concept of Buddha-Nature ●●● Winter 2005 — Busshobeing buddha-nature rather than having it
The emphasis there is on “are” buddha-nature rather than “have” it, or “does not have” it
- Buddhism and the Theory of No-Self ●●●existential self
This “something ineffable” that Nagarjuna points to here is our real existing self; our “existential self.”
- Bussho 1: Names and Reality ●●● Winter 2005 — Busshothe name exists
In other words, the name is “exists”, which is certainly not an ordinary name