tradition
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Summary
In these texts, tradition is what we learn from our teacher, a real person, not what we read in a book. We have to separate cultural custom from what original Buddhism is saying and find what Buddhism is about without the bells and clothes; we often follow rules long after forgetting their reason.
Part of ↑ teacher and transmission ↑ Buddhism in history and culture
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Tradition is something real that you really learn from a real person
Ceremony and Everyday Life February 2009 — Cholín
Texts
- Just to Be Alive Is Enough ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavanaancient ideas and modern knowledge · prajñā in a modern sense
if we don't bring the ancient ideas and the modern knowledge together, then we have some kind of religion which is stuck in the past
- Two Things, and the Rest Is Fashion ●●● August 2012 — Dibbavanafashion and what is left · something different from formal Buddhism
I wanted people to take away the fashion and find out what is left.
- Ceremony and Everyday Life ●●● February 2009 — Cholíntradition learned from a real person
Tradition is something real that you really learn from a real person
- No Hierarchy of Enlightenment ●●● July 2009 — DibbavanaBuddhism without bells and clothes · Dogen's rules for temple life
if you think very strongly that the rules which Dogen wrote down for living are Buddhism, you may go in the wrong direction
- Introductions 1: Rules and Reality ●●● Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chaptersrules followed without their reason
after a while we forget what the clear reason was and just follow the rule
- Uji 2: An Alternative to Linear Time ●●● Winter 2004 — UjiDogen against traditional Buddhism
It was against traditional Buddhism. Master Dogen wanted to strip away all the misinterpretations and strange beliefs
- A Buddhist Teacher Without a Plan ●●● June 2007 — Padmafarmacultural custom and original Buddhism
We have to separate between what is the cultural custom and what original Buddhism is saying
- Buddhism Free from ‘Buddhism’ ●●● September 2009 — Earth SpiritDogen's rules for temple life
Dogen didn’t write things as a metaphor for life, he wrote them to teach his ragged bunch of monks how to live together
- The Empty Trappings of Transmission ●●● September 2009 — Earth Spiritseeing through the form
one or two people, including Kodo Sawaki, who saw through the form and taught what it was really about
Keywords
Ideas (3) prajñā in a modern sense seeing through the form tradition learned from a real person
Themes (7) Dogen's rules for temple life2 ancient ideas and modern knowledge cultural custom and original Buddhism Dogen against traditional Buddhism fashion and what is left rules followed without their reason something different from formal Buddhism
Images and stories (1) Buddhism without bells and clothes