impermanence
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Summary
In these texts impermanence means that nothing endures: there is no permanent mind, essence or self, though we impose an enduring quality on things. In the chapter Doshin (The Will to the Truth) Dogen writes that we should not forget the unreliability of the world and the precariousness of human life.
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Master Dogen says that's a misapprehension, that there is no permanent mind or essence or self
Genjo-koan 3: Action Only Here and Now Summer 2002 — Genjo-koan
Texts
- Genjo-koan 3: Action Only Here and Now ●●● Summer 2002 — Genjo-koanatoms in a rat's brain · no permanent soul
Master Dogen says that's a misapprehension, that there is no permanent mind or essence or self
- Freedom and the Teacher’s Character ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavanadrawing only with water · feeling of change
if I give a word to the feeling, I suppose it's change
- Bussho 3: Beyond the Process View ●●● Summer 2004 — Busshono permanent soul
the idea of an enduring self in the sense of a continuing soul that goes on to some other place is not Buddhism
- Bussho 3: Acting in the Present Moment ●●● Winter 2005 — Busshoenduring image
We impose an enduring quality on things
- Doshin ●●● Shobogenzounreliability of the world
we should not forget the unreliability of the world and the precariousness of human life
- Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika ●●● January 1996 — Gudo Wafu Nishijimano permanent soul
he denied the existence of soul or spirit completely
- Uji 4: Contradictory Explanations ●●● Winter 2004 — Ujiunchanging entity through time
some real unchanging entity that passes from moment to moment moving through all worlds and all times
- Uji 4: Coming into the Present ●●● Summer 2007 — Ujiunchanging entity through time
we often put some unchanging entity behind the present moment in which we exist
- Fukan-zazengi ●●● Shobogenzodew-drop on a blade of grass
the body is like a dew-drop on a blade of grass. Life passes like a flash of lightning.
- Genjo-koan 2: Delusion and Self-Image ●●● Summer 2002 — Genjo-koanatoms in a rat's brain
the phosphorous atoms in the brain of a rat, and indeed in the human brain, are not the same atoms
- Bussho 5: Our Fundamental Nature ●●● Winter 2005 — Busshocandle flame dying and reborn
as the candle burns down the flame dies and is reborn at every moment
- Sadness Is a Change in Balance ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavanano permanent soul
Maybe, or maybe I'm changing all the time. In some Buddhist teachings they say there is no self, which means there's no permanent self.
Keywords
Ideas (3) no permanent soul4 unchanging entity through time2 enduring image
Themes (2) feeling of change unreliability of the world
Images and stories (4) atoms in a rat's brain2 candle flame dying and reborn dew-drop on a blade of grass drawing only with water