Bendōwa

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Bendōwa (辨道話), meaning Discourse on the Practice of the Way or Dialogue on the Way of Commitment, sometimes also translated as Negotiating the Way, On the Endeavor of the Way,

Sōtō school in Japan.[2]

History and background

Bendōwa is Dogen's earliest known writing in Japanese.

fascicle of the 95-fascicle edition of Dōgen's already well-known master compilation, the Shōbōgenzō.[4][5] This format was standardized in 1788 with its first major printed publication. Despite its four-century absence from the compilation, today it is often said that it "contains within it the essence of all ninety-five fascicles of Shōbōgenzō."[5]

Content

The essay primarily serves to introduce

samādhi), and tells of his travels in China.[5]

Ji juyū 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,"[7] while Nishijima writes that it "suggests the state of natural balance which we experience when making effort without an intentional aim."[4]

In the remaining text, which adopts a question-and-answer format, Dōgen answers questions put forward by an archetypical novice Zen student.[3]

See also

References

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    ISBN 9780865471863
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  2. ISBN 9781590300244
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    ISBN 1-4196-3820-3
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    OCLC 52677753
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  6. ISBN 9780861716012
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  7. OCLC 38190728
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External links
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