mistakes
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Summary
Mistakes are natural in Buddhist life: we often make them as we try to live and practise, so we should not criticise them in others. If we practise zazen, all our mistakes lead us to the truth. What we did is past; what matters is our conduct now.
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So Master Dogen says that if we practise zazen, all our mistakes lead us to the truth
Precepts as Guidelines July 2009 — Dibbavana
Texts
- Ikka-no-myoju 3: Our Place in the Universe ●●● Summer 2006 — Ikka-no-myojuregret and acting now
although you might regret it, you did it, and it’s past, and so your behaviour or conduct now is what is important
- Shoaku Makusa 3: Balance and Not Doing Wrong ●●● Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusaregret as energy supporting effort
even regretting that we have done something that we should not have done is just energy that promotes our effort not to do wrong
- Precepts as Guidelines ●●● July 2009 — Dibbavanamistakes leading to the truth
So Master Dogen says that if we practise zazen, all our mistakes lead us to the truth
- Freedom and the Teacher’s Character ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavanamistakes leading to the truth
Dogen said even our mistakes teach us the truth, or lead us to the truth
- Reading Dogen from Experience ●●● May 2014 — Banský Studenecmistakes leading to the truth
Dogen writes that all our mistakes lead us to the truth
- The Meaning of the Precepts ●●●mistakes as the product of effort
when we see the mistakes of others we should not be critical, for their mistakes are only the product of their efforts in this life