thinking and language

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ideas and reality

76 keywords · in 60 texts

abstract and real right and wrong three-year-old and eighty-year-old goal as only an idea mistaking thoughts for reality perfection of real life time as a human concept buddha-nature beyond concepts dyne instead of state

language

51 keywords · in 42 texts

reality beyond description universe beyond description anger as a label description is never the thing glasses we wear reversing subject and object aigo, loving words ambiguity of ku

thinking and acting

36 keywords · in 34 texts

three-year-old and eighty-year-old separation of thinking and doing covering up action with thoughts difference between thinking and doing disappointed expectations gap between knowing and doing Kiso Chijo and the snake acting before thinking in an emergency

understanding

30 keywords · in 30 texts

noticing as a solution afraid to be simple book knowledge and experience discussing swimming from a book intellectual understanding knowing we are buddha student of medicine forgetting medications what use is understanding

viewpoint

27 keywords · in 25 texts

letting go of viewpoints many faces of reality glasses we wear viewpoint formed from past experience viewpoint of action balanced point of view cause and effect in one instant cup in two different worlds

thinking

26 keywords · in 30 texts

thinking during zazen noticing as a solution think not-thinking two oxen made of mud bringing ourselves back in zazen carrying ourselves past the moment cutting through intellectualising digesting thoughts

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

constructed world

21 keywords · in 24 texts

constructed self shared constructed world social reality and ultimate reality shared belief in time pin numbers and bank accounts three worlds virtual worlds agreement that the world endures

subject and object

15 keywords · in 21 texts

mindfulness as watching oneself lifting a cup of tea oneness of subject and object participating in the world reversing subject and object subjectivism and objectivism chair came up to my behind denial of subjectivity and objectivity

perception

14 keywords · in 13 texts

clouded eyes seeing flowers ocean that looks round filling in the visual field illusion of movement dance as one thing Dogen’s different reading of the poem flowers in space causing clouded eyes one-sided perception

dialectic

13 keywords · in 12 texts

Buddhist dialectic contradiction in Dogen's descriptions contradictory explanations of reality thoughts as reality Dogen's holistic view inner dialogue about feeling cold karma both absolute and without effect koans as illogical riddles

mind

10 keywords · in 13 texts

mind empty heart-mind clarity from posture fences, walls, tiles and pebbles flexible mind Hotei's clear and cloudy mind mind as conscious awareness mind as part of reality