texts and stories
Experiment The keywords are a way to the texts; if they don't suit you, read the texts directly. How to use them →
The main concepts of the area, bigger with more keywords; around each its most frequent keywords.
koan
60 keywords · in 58 texts
three-year-old and eighty-year-old Gensa stubbing his toe Joshu's dog mosquito on an iron ox raising an eyebrow and winking go and wash your bowl child of fire earthworm cut in two
Dogen
41 keywords · in 32 texts
contradiction in Dogen's descriptions Dogen as an orphan and aristocrat Dogen's doubt about original nature Master Dogen's life reading Dogen from real experience reversing subject and object what kind of man Dogen was assertion that cannot be proven
sutras
30 keywords · in 20 texts
Heart Sutra form is emptiness mantra that heals all suffering the other shore boy writing truth on trees buddhas of the three times Buddha's praise of Avalokitesvara nothing to get
Shobogenzo
28 keywords · in 32 texts
studying Buddhism based on zazen flowers in space four-phased pattern Bendowa right-Dharma-eye treasury Shoaku Makusa Shobogenzo as a vast picture blue lotus flowers in fire
one bright pearl
27 keywords · in 12 texts
Gensa stubbing his toe pearl hidden in the garment demon's cave in a black mountain foot of water, one-foot wave Gensa Shibi universe beyond description doubts as the bright pearl riding the adversary's horse
Genjo-koan
26 keywords · in 15 texts
firewood and ash realised universe forgetting ourselves boat and the moving shore moon reflected in water ocean that looks round experienced by the myriad dharmas eyes of learning in practice
translation
24 keywords · in 17 texts
literal translation reading Dogen from real experience realistic meaning of Buddhist scriptures characters as momentary mirrors every generation one step faint line traced in the sand gods and demons as explanation gods in heaven read literally
poetry
7 keywords · in 13 texts
Burnt Norton arriving where we started Daikan Eno's mirror poem Minister Hyo's poem world in a grain of sand poems from the gap between thoughts still point of a turning world