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Summary
In these texts experience is the essential experience before we start thinking, which we cannot put into words. Buddhist teaching is about the reality we are experiencing now; we can realise something only through our own experience, not from second-hand knowledge or from somebody else telling us.
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all of Buddhist teaching is about the reality that we're having or experiencing now. If it's not based on real experience, I'm not interested.
The Buddha’s Discovery June 2005 — Lotus Centre
The most important text
- MMK 2: Non-Separation ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarikadiscussing swimming from a book · theory based on real experience · unity of experience · tasting chocolate
Although language forces us to say ‘I am experiencing something’, actually, that experience I am having is an inseparable reality
Other texts
- Ikka-no-myoju 1: A Pearl in Ordinary Things ●●● Summer 2006 — Ikka-no-myojunot deceived by others · realising through one's own experience
Which is the only way we can realise anything. We can’t realise it from somebody else telling us.
- Ikka-no-myoju ●●● Shobogenzonot deceived by others
he can be satisfied not with second-hand knowledge, but only by experiencing things for himself
- The Buddha’s Discovery ●●● June 2005 — Lotus CentreBuddhism based on real experience
all of Buddhist teaching is about the reality that we're having or experiencing now. If it's not based on real experience, I'm not interested.
- Bussho 4: Hearing and Understanding ●●● Winter 2005 — Busshobook knowledge and experience
we talk about subjects that really we know nothing about experientially, but which we’ve read about
- Yunmen’s Lantern Without Mystery ●●● September 2009 — Earth SpiritBuddhism based on real experience
The place where you should look to understand what he is saying is right here, right here in our own experience
- Making Dogen's Words Our Own ●●● August 2012 — Dibbavanatesting words in our own experience
He says, reflect on these words. Test them out in experience.
- Old Writings and Our Own Life ●●● September 2013 — Banský Studenecown life as the basis
But a more helpful way is to make our own life the basis
- Reading Dogen from Experience ●●● May 2014 — Banský Studenecstudy in experience
Dogen writes many times in the Shobogenzo that we should study things in experience
- Prajñā: Deciding Before Thinking ●●● July 2021 — Skalní farabook knowledge and experience · discussing swimming from a book
in society's sense, means we have knowledge. But ‘we know’, in the sense of the Buddhist teachings, means to have real experience
- Not Making Practice Special ●●● July 2021 — Skalní farastudy in experience
So Dogen always writes, Study in experience. Go away and study this in experience. Find out what it means for you in your life.
- Bussho 2: Balance in Action ●●● Summer 2004 — Busshoexperience beyond words
it’s very difficult for us to notice an experience which we can’t put into words
- Uji 2: An Alternative to Linear Time ●●● Winter 2004 — Ujipre-conceptual experience
What Master Dogen is trying to do is to describe that essential experience before we start thinking
- Shoaku Makusa 2: Not Doing Wrong as a State ●●● Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusaneither discrete nor continuous · taste of our own experience
In scientific terms we could say it’s not discrete and it’s not continuous. It’s not digital and it’s not analogue.
- Kuge 5: Compassion and Freedom in Action ●●● Winter 2007 — Kugeexperiencing instead of learning lessons
we don’t need to learn lessons, just we need to experience what’s happening to us
- Karma, Cause and Effect ●●● July 2009 — Brnobelief and experience
the connection between belief and experience
- Gaku do yo jin shu - Practical Advice on Pursuing the Buddhist Truth ●●●direct hit here and now
we can experience ourselves as Buddha directly. That is just a direct hit.
- The One Bright Pearl ●●● Shobogenzo · Ikka-no-myojunot deceived by others
I have realised that it is not others who deceive me
- Genjo-koan 5: Freedom Within Limits ●●● Summer 2002 — Genjo-koanbook on skiing
it’s only a book about skiing, go out and try it, read the book by all means
- Bussho 2: Without a Concept of Buddha-Nature ●●● Winter 2005 — Busshositting in the water
If you want to find out what water is, sit in it
- The Map in Our Head ●●● May 2012 — Nová Dedinkagarlic is just a name
the difference between when I experienced it, I didn't know what it was, and then garlic. Garlic is just a name.
Keywords
Ideas (11) not deceived by others3 study in experience2 direct hit here and now experiencing instead of learning lessons neither discrete nor continuous own life as the basis pre-conceptual experience realising through one's own experience taste of our own experience testing words in our own experience unity of experience
Themes (5) book knowledge and experience2 Buddhism based on real experience2 belief and experience experience beyond words theory based on real experience
Images and stories (5) discussing swimming from a book2 book on skiing garlic is just a name sitting in the water tasting chocolate