Buddhist Books Podcast: Zen Buddhism · Edward Reib

Buddhist Books: Zen Buddhism - Part 16

·51 min·5 clips
Wrongs are nothing other than not committing, and not committing is nothing other than wrongs.
The host reads and comments on Dogen's Shobogenzo chapter 'Shoaku Makusa' (Not Doing Wrongs), exploring Zen Buddhist teachings on morality through Dogen's commentary and a story about poet Hakukyo-i asking Master Dorin about Buddha Dharma. The episode examines the paradoxical nature of wrongs and rights in Zen philosophy.

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A candid walk through Dogen that keeps its uncertainty in view.

Buddhist Books Podcast episode 308 spends its time in Dogen's Shobogenzo, The Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma, and that choice suits a chapter shaped by difficult Zen writing as much as by close reading.

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Press play if you want Zen reading with the thinking left in.

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