Dōgen ~ Bendowa - Jijuyu Zanmai ~ Self-Receiving and Employing Samadhi - Zen Buddhism

Bendōwa is Dogen's earliest known writing in Japanese and one of
his most important and influential works. The whole text of the
Bendowa is held in high esteem as being Dogen’s best and most
comprehensible explanation of his understanding of Zen and the
Dharma.  Jijuyū zanmai can be translated loosely as "samādhi
of self-fulfillment and enjoyment" or literally as the "samādhi
of receiving and using the self." Kosho Uchiyama comments, ". . .
we can understand this samādhi of self-fulfillment and enjoyment
as the samādhi or concentration on the self when it simply
receives and accepts its function, or its spiritual position in
the world."


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