I wrote:
Sometimes that activity of support for the fluid ball feels like this:
The empty hand grasps the hoe-handle
Walking along, I ride the ox
The ox crosses the wooden bridge
The bridge is flowing, the water is still
A friend of mine asked me, “How so?”; I wrote the following in a late-night response:
Bartilink ...
Therefore, …take the backward step of turning the light and shining it back.
(Eihei Dogen, “Fukan zazengi” Tenpuku version, trans. Carl Bielefeldt, “Dogen’s Manuals of Zen Meditation”, pg 176)
If I feel as though I’m moving backward in space, I may suddenly have an acute sense of where my awareness is in my ...
(The following is excerpted from a commentary I’ve just completed, Dogen’s “Genjo Koan”)
There’s a sentence in the “Genjo Koan” where Dogen speaks about the life that fish and birds enjoy, and he says:
…each one realizes its limitations at every moment and each one somersaults ...
