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Summary
In these texts, nature is a face of the truth: this world is the truth, and nature, its material side, is always speaking it. Mountains and waters are like a book that teaches us, and in the chapter Bussho mountains, rivers and the Earth are buddha-nature.
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In Buddhism, this world is the truth, so nature is a face of the truth
Introductions 4: Ordinary Balance Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chapters
Texts
- Introductions 5: Clear Explanation for Zazen ●●● Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chaptersblue mountains constantly walking · mountains and waters as a book
“The blue mountains are constantly walking” suggests two things, one, that everything is relative
- Ikka-no-myoju 4: The Universe as Teacher ●●● Summer 2006 — Ikka-no-myojuforest with rustling leaves · the universe teaching us
We're in the universe, and the universe and all the things in it teach us
- Bussho 1: Names and Reality ●●● Winter 2005 — Busshomountains, rivers, and the Earth
He’s saying mountains, rivers, the earth are buddha-nature. Buddha-nature is the mountains, rivers, and the earth
- Buddha-nature ●●● Shobogenzo · Busshomountains, rivers, and the Earth
these mountains, rivers, and Earth in front of us are buddha-nature
- Introductions 4: Ordinary Balance ●●● Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chaptersnature as face of truth
In Buddhism, this world is the truth, so nature is a face of the truth
- Bendōwa ●●● Shobogenzopreaching of fences and walls
Grass, trees, fences, and walls become able to preach for all souls
- Bussho 1: Fully Manifesting Existence ●●● Summer 2004 — Busshostones as living beings
All beings have buddha-nature, yes, but the poem says all living beings. So is a stone living?
- Uji 4: Coming into the Present ●●● Summer 2007 — Ujithe universe teaching us
some people like to keep a pet because the pet is always showing them how to be in the present moment
- Sadness Is a Change in Balance ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavanatree bending in the wind
Like a big tree in the wind: it blows this way, I'm unhappy; it blows that way, I'm happy
- The Map in Our Head ●●● May 2012 — Nová Dedinkatree bending in the wind
When the wind blows, the tree bends. When the wind stops, the tree stops. That's the truth, yeah.