zazen like ringing a bell
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also practice resonating like a bell · ringing before and after a bell · zazen jako zvonění zvonu CZ
Summary
Master Dogen compares zazen to ringing a bell: it strikes space and resonates, and the sound continues and slowly dies away. The practice resounds within us up to our next practice, but it doesn’t stay for ever, so the next day we strike the bell again.
Part of ↑ zazen
Mention
Master Dogen describes that as like the ringing of a bell, it resonates but it doesn’t stay for ever
1Bussho 2: Without a Concept of Buddha-Nature Winter 2005 — Bussho
a metaphor that zazen is like ringing a bell. Bong. When we ring a big bell, the sound continues and slowly dies away
2The Eight Truths of a Great Person June 2006 — Padmafarma
Master Dogen describes zazen like a bell: we hit it, bong, and the next day we hit it
3The Life of Master Dogen June 2005 — Lotus Centre
it strikes space and resonates, [like] ringing that continues before and after a bell
4Bendōwa Shobogenzo
The practice resonates within us, like a bell. It resounds within us up to our next practice
5How To Pursue the Truth Shobogenzo · Bendōwa