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A Zen monk should be like a cloud with no fixed abode, like flowing water with nothing to rely on. – Dogen (p61) ... The one who dwells nowhere is not at home in his self. Rather, he is a guest there. All forms of possession and possession are renounced. Neither body nor mind is mine.
Dwelling nowhere is therefore opposed to the economic world to the household.
Always a latent faculty in us for this stuff. Dōgen ref. Story about the Age of Degenerate Law and the rise of Pure Land Buddhism, which was new to me. Dogen's model of time, as awakening , as atemporal.
The Dogen quote with the thousand eyes of the rock, of the tounge, of the mind...that was quite something. Totally wrong of course. Or, OK, not wrong, but incommensurable with the computationalist view of mind. The Eyes of Dogen | Hardcore Zen
Is it though? The tongue, at least, has thousands of sensors, not quite eyes but they fulfill part of the function of an eye, connecting physics and sensation.
I guess I have problems with panpsychism, or some versions of it.
some boring throat clearing on definition of religion vs. philosophy. Ref to You Must Change Your Life
Zen is about the here and now, not the transcendental.
Discussion of the compact poetry of Dogen and the various contradictions of Zen Buddhism, and some on Tantra too (Trungpa came up). PF was too pains to say he was entirely unqualified to teach dharma, and there was general acknowledgement of the absurdity of the effort.