not knowing
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Summary
Not knowing, in these texts, means we cannot know what is, yet we are in it and act in it. To be a buddha, we need not know we are one; being unaware of it suggests real experience. Knowing that we cannot find out who we are is finding out.
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We can’t know what is, but we’re in what is, and we act in what is
Introductions 1: Rules and Reality Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chapters
Texts
- Bussho 4: Real Present Time ●●● Summer 2004 — Busshobeing unaware of buddha-nature · knowing we are buddha
If we know we’re buddha in the sense that we think “oh, I’m a buddha now”, that’s a thought
- Introductions 1: Rules and Reality ●●● Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chaptersacting in what is
We can’t know what is, but we’re in what is, and we act in what is
- Uji 5: Life Moment by Moment ●●● Summer 2007 — Ujiknowing who we are
We can't find out who we are. But knowing that we can't find out who we are is finding out
- Prajñā: The State Before Thinking ●●● May 2014 — Banský Studenectrust develops over years
So that trust develops over years.
- How To Pursue the Truth ●●● Shobogenzo · Bendōwaknowing we are buddha
the intellectual understanding that we are just buddha is not it
- Genjo-koan 2: Delusion and Self-Image ●●● Summer 2002 — Genjo-koanbuddhas without knowing it
to be a buddha, you don’t need to know you’re a buddha
- Genjo-koan: Being Awake Is Being Here ●●● May 2014 — Banský Studenecbuddhas without knowing it
Even though we might not notice that we're in reality, we carry on experiencing the state of being awake.
- The Universe Made Real ●●● Shobogenzo · Genjō-kōanbuddhas without knowing it
We are still buddhas, and we go on experiencing the state of buddha, whether we know it or not
- Kuge 1: Ripening Fruit ●●● Winter 2007 — Kugeknown unknowns and unknown unknowns
the phenomenal is like the known unknown. The other stuff that we’re unaware of entirely is just, like, unknown unknown
- Sacred and Ordinary Together ●●● July 2009 — Brnothrowing the words out
So it's like we throw the words out. Where they go, we don't know.
- Dogen’s Teaching as a Way of Living ●●● September 2013 — Banský Studeneclooking back at one's footprints
And the only way I can find a reason is by looking backwards. If I look backwards, I can see my footprints