Showing posts with label Tozan Ryokai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tozan Ryokai. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2015

Today's Tao / Hesitant 15-5


«Today's Tao»




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«My Koan Horoscope»

(available in Taoísmo en Español)

1. The more intelligent the people are, the more evil acts take place. (Ch.57 / Little luck)

2. Neighboring countries can see each other. (Ch.80 / Emptiness)

3. Seeing the small is called enlightenment. (Ch.52 / Good luck)


«From Yama Uba»

And, you know, then I can go back to the real world of love where I belong.
That’s why I have been so desperate to see you.


«Interpretation»

Little luck - Emptiness - Good luck.

Do you wonder what you are doing in this world, where the grass seems to be always greener in your neighbor's backyard? Do you wonder why you have to live in this world, where the intelligent people seem to take advantage of the less intelligent? Do you wonder why it is too difficult to accept that the very living itself is Satori the enlightenment?
Then, listen to this:

"I am always doing this desperately."

吾れ常に是に於いて切なり / 吾常於此切

 (Zen Master Tozan Ryokai 807-869 洞山良价)
[Tung-shan Liang-chieh / Dongshan Liangjie]


By living desperately, you can go back to the real world of Love.


Please try Koan Horoscope (although it is in Spanish).


Naoto Matsumoto



Friday, May 27, 2011

Tao Te Ching Chapter 75-3 Plenty of life?


Today's Tao

People think lightly of ending life because they demand plenty of life. That's why they think lightly of ending life. (Ch.75)


Life is just a hologram. It is just a painted rice-cake.

It exists as a catalyst to stimulate you to emit more Love (=Tao).

To satisfy your hunger for life, all you can do is to send more Love.

Or rather, we have to learn that, whatever we do, we are always sending Love.


That's why Tozan Ryokai 洞山良价 [Tung-shan Liang-chieh / Dongshan Liangjie] said:

"I am always doing this desperately."

(聯燈會要 [rento eyo] Book 20 / Dogen quoted this in his «Shobogenzo» as shown yesterday)


If everyone is sending Love, "No one can ever do anything evil. Everyone is doing the right thing", right?

"A painted rice-cake / Gabyo 画餅", a hologram, or life is a catalyst.

It is you who satisfy your hunger by sending Love.

Whether you still want a life of plenty or plenty of life, your life is asking you to do the same thing.

Send Love.

Respect your life, or your sweet piece of painted rice-cake.


«Related Articles»
-Tax and Starve 75-1
-King and Zen Master Dogen 75-2
-Plenty of life? 75-3
-Value life? 75-4
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 75


Tao answers your question!



☞«Tao of ****» The first line comparison (17) / "Taoism is the original meditation, religion and philosophy of the Chinese." On the left, «TAO of Letting Go: Meditation for Modern Living» written by Bruce Frantzis. / "If you want to be rich, stop chasing after the things of the world. Go inside. What you will find will stop you dead and you will want no more." On the right, «The Tao of Contemplation: Re-Sourcing the Inner Life» written by Jasmin Lee Cori. / Life is the best meditation of all. If we are always living this life desperately like Tozan Ryokai, do we really need a cushion for meditation? Nevertheless, of course, Tao does not exclude meditation if you wish.


See you next Monday. Have a nice weekend.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Tao Te Ching Chapter 75-2 King & Zen Master Dogen


Today's Tao

It's difficult to govern people because their king does something. That's why it's difficult to govern them. (Ch.75)


Zen Master Kyogen Chikan 香厳智閑 [Hsing-yen Chih-hsien / Xiangyan Zhixian] said:

"a painted rice-cake cannot satisfy hunger."


Of course, not. We cannot eat the picture of a rice-cake... Wait a minute!


Master Dogen said:

"If it is not a painted rice-cake, it must not be a remedy to satisfy hunger."

(Gabyo 画餅, «Shobogenzo»)

Didn't he? (☞See Painted rice-cake / Empty granary 53-5)


Can a painted rice-cake satisfy hunger?

Or, can it not?


Dogen answers the question with some key phrases in Zen.

"A painted rice-cake cannot satisfy hunger" is like saying:

"No one can ever do anything evil. Everyone is doing the right thing. (Don't do anything evil. Practice all the good things.) 諸悪莫作、衆善奉行 [shoaku makusa, shuzen bugyo]",

"Where on earth did this «what on earth» thing come from? 是什麼物恁麼来 [ze inmo butsu inmo rai]",

and

"I am always doing this desperately. 吾れ常に是に於いて切なり [ware tsuneni koreni oite setsu nari]".

(Gabyo 画餅, «Shobogenzo»)


Did you get Master Dogen's teachings?

You are the king in your hologram.

If you do something, everything is difficult.

If you do nothing, everything is easy.


[Note]
"I am always doing this desperately." 吾れ常に是に於いて切なり / 吾常於此切 [ware tsuneni koreni oite setsu nari], originally mentioned by Tozan Ryokai (807-869) 洞山良价 [Tung-shan Liang-chieh / Dongshan Liangjie].


«Related Articles»
-Tax and Starve 75-1
-King and Zen Master Dogen 75-2
-Plenty of life? 75-3
-Value life? 75-4
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 75


Tao answers your question!



☞«Tao of ****» The first line comparison (16) / "I have often been described as outgoing, aggressive, impulsive, intimidating, gregarious, courageous, and daring." On the left, «The Tao of Tango» written by Johanna Siegmann. / "'What have you got?' The old man asked me around his cigar. 'A banjo' I replied." On the right, «The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo» written by Patrick Costello. / "C'mon. Tao has nothing to do with Tango or Banjo!", you might say. But, wait a minute. Remember? Tao is everywhere, even around the banjo or the legs of your Tango partner.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Tao Te Ching Chapter 45-8 Tozan Ryokai / Cold


Today's Tao

Movement defeats cold. (Ch.45)


In summer, it is hot.

In winter, it is cold.

Whether it is hot or cold, Tao's "movement" is hidden behind.


Dogen says:

"寒はこれ祖宗の活眼睛なり

[kan ha kore sosou no katsu ganzei nari]

Cold is the very living holography of Buddha ancestors."

(Shunjuu 春秋, «Shobogenzo»)


Like other holograms, cold is a manifestation of Tao.

You accept it with gratitude.


That's why Tozan Ryokai 洞山良价 said:

"When it's cold, make yourself feel cold completely".

寒時寒殺闍梨


«Related Articles»
-Completion 45-1
-Never tired 45-2
-Full = Empty 45-3
-No exhaustion 45-4
-Straight = Winging 45-5
-Capable = Incapable 45-6
-Poor speech 45-7
-Tozan Ryokai / Cold 45-8
-Heat 45-9
-Clear and Still 45-10
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 45


Tao answers your question!



☞Yukio Mishima adapted some Noh plays into modern plays: «Kindai noh gaku shu / Five Modern No Plays». Many Japanese agree that «Sotoba komachi» is the most successful adaptation among others. You can read its original in «The Noh plays of Japan» and find out whether they are right or not. It seems that the adaptation is extremely difficult because, in the originals of most Noh plays, the confrontation of ideas and values, which is often the pillar of dramatic development of a story in a modern play, is crucially lacking. In the country of Zen, concepts are less important obviously.