GUDO NISHIJIMA PDF
The answers are by Buddhist priest Gudo Wafu Nishijima. 1. What is gained in Zazen? What we gain in Zazen is the balance of the autonomic nervous system. : To Meet the Real Dragon (): Gudo Nishijima, Jeffrey Bailey: Books. Master Gudo Nishijima has been practicing Buddhism for more than sixty years. He was a student of Master Kodo Sawaki, an itinerant priest famous for his.
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These questions were compiled by Gustav Ericson based on questions he received from a group of people in Sweden who practice Zazen. The answers are by Buddhist priest Gudo Wafu Nishijima. What is gained in Zazen? What we gain in Zazen is the balance of the autonomic nervous system. Therefore Jijuyo is a combination between Jiju and Jiyo.
Jiju means to receive ourselves and Jiyo means to utilize ourselves.
Therefore we can interpret that Jiju suggests the function of the parasympathetic nervous system, and Jiyo suggests the function of the sympathetic nervous system. And the second word Zanmai means the balanced state of the autonomic nervous system. Therefore we can understand that the words JijuyoZanmai mean just the balanced state of the autonomic nervous system, which modern psychology and physiology teaches us about today. What is Master Dogen’s “flowers in space”?
In this chapter Master Dogen explains that even though Buddhism insists that both intellectual consideration and sensuous perception are not real entities themselves, he also insists that both intellectual consideration as thesis and concrete sensuous perception as antithesis are useful and necessary, and by utilizing those nishljima fundamental criteria we can understand reality on the basis of dialectic thinking utilizing the philosophy of action as the synthesis.
What is the meaning of Dharma Transmission? Nisijima Shobogenzo we can find the 16th chapter, which is entitled “The Certificate of Succession.
Therefore Transmission means the transmission of Dharma, and Dharma means the Buddhist truth, the Universe, gudi real act at the present moment, and Reality itself. Therefore we can interpret that Dharma Transmission is giving the certificate of realizing Dharma from a Buddhist Master to his matured disciple. What is a Zen Master?
Zen is the same in the two languages, and Ji or Shi nisihjima a teacher. Therefore a Zen Master means a teacher of Nkshijima. But I think that we should be careful in thinking about the word Zen.
Because in gudi kinds of Buddhism we sometimes find the strange fact that the word Zen is used to represent a special meaning of something mystical. Those kinds of Buddhism use the word Zen to represent some kind of mystical but powerful entity. But I wonder whether such a gkdo of mystical entity really exists in Buddhism or not. Master Dogen hated such a kind of mysticism so strongly, and so in his book Shobogenzo he writes his opinion as follows Book 2, P.
They randomly call the right-Dharma-eye treasury and the fine mind of nirvana that have been authentically transmitted by the Buddhist patriarchs “the Zen Sect”; they call the ancestral Master “the Zen patriarch”; they call practitioners “Zen students” or “students of dhyana “; and some of them call themselves “the Zen schools. Those who randomly call nishijina by the name “Zen Sect,” which has never existed in India in the west or in eastern lands, from the past to the present, are demons out to destroy the Buddha’s truth.
They are the Buddhist patriarchs’ uninvited enemies. Nishijoma we should be careful to use the word “Zen.
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Intuition is a mental ability which has a function to decide a conclusion transcending mental consideration and sensuous perception. When the sympathetic nishijiima system is stronger, the nishijika consideration works well, and when the parasympathetic nervous system is stronger, the sensuous perception works well, but when the autonomic nervous system is balanced the ability of intuition works well directly. What is our true original nature?
Generally speaking, it is usually impossible for us to know our true original nature, because it is just a simple fact at the present moment, and so it is usually impossible for us to grasp it at the present moment.
Therefore Buddha-nature does not exist in the past and it does not exist in future, but it exists only at the present moment. So we can nishijlma that Buddha-nature is Reality just at the present moment. What is Heaven and Hell? Heaven is a human supposition and Hell is also a human supposition. But when our autonomic nervous system is balanced, it is just Heaven, and when our autonomic nervous system is not balanced, it is just Hell.
What is life and death? When our heart has stopped and if it doesn’t move again, the state is called death, and when our heart is moving nishiijima without stopping, that state is called life. What is the meaning of the Buddhist idea of emptiness? The true meaning of emptiness in Buddhism has been misunderstood for so many years as nothingness, or void.
But if guudo have understood that Buddhism is a realistic philosophy, it is impossible for us to understand emptiness like that. In Buddhism emptiness is just “as it is. A cup is never more than cup, or a cup is never less than cup. What is nisbijima Zazen and worse Zazen? There is no better Zazen, or worse Zazen.
What is different from Zazen is wrong, and what is just Zazen is Zazen. What is the eternal?
Guxo is just a human idea. But the fact at the present moment is eternal, because guudo must be recorded as a fact at the present moment, and it can never be erased for ever. What is the meaning of Master Dogen’s ” BodaisattvaShishobo “? Could you please comment on the four principles of a Bodaisattva’s social relations? These four elements are as follows: Second is kind speech. Third is helpful conduct.
When our autonomic nervous system is balanced, it is impossible for our stinginess to occur, and if something is not necessary for us to keep, there is no reason for us to refuse giving it to others.
When our autonomic nervous system is balanced, it is very natural for us to be polite to others, and if others nishijina our politeness, the others might be happy.
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When our autonomic nervous system is balanced, it will be happy for us to help others, and if others have received our kind help, they will feel very happy. When our autonomic nervous system is balanced, we are always cooperative in a common job, and what we want to accomplish will be accomplished much faster. What does it mean that life is only one breath? Our life exists always just at the present moment, and the length of the present moment is always the shortest time, and actually thinking the present moment is much more shorter than our one breath.
Therefore we can say that our life is always much shorter than the length of our breath. When should we break the precepts? We should never break the precepts at all, but sometimes we can not avoid our mistake. But you shouldn’t worry about the fact that you have broken the Buddhist precepts.
Because it is completely impossible for you to return to the past to correct your mistake at all. Therefore the best you can do is just to throw away your mistakes in the past, and to do the gudl just at the present moment.
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Where will you be in years from now? When I die in a few years, not so long from now, everything will become nothing including me, and I will take a rest forever. How can we understand ourselves? I think that it is impossible for us to understand ourselves. What can we understand with words and what can we not understand with words?
We can understand everything, but at the same time, our understandings can never touch Reality. Is it possible to teach Zen? It is possible for us to teach Zazen, but it is necessary for everyone to practice Zazen by himself or herself. Does Zazen have a goal?
Zazen has a goal. The goal of Zazen is to practice Zazen itself. Where do we come from, why are we here, and where are we going? I think that such kinds of questions might be beyond all human beings’ ability. How can we let go of fame and profit? When our autonomic nervous system has become balanced, it seems to be so boring for us to pursue fame and profit and we can find a much more valuable object to pursue, that is the Truth.
Could you please tell me more about the city you were in Manchuria and your time there during the war? What was the name of the city? It was called Songo in Japanese at that time, and it was in the north-west district of Manchuria near Amur. It was just a military city for the Japanese army. But at that time fortunately there was no fighting in that district, and so we were just guarding the district.
Could you please tell me more about how it was to return to Japan after the war? In JuneI was ordered to move to Himeji City in Japan for the purpose of guarding Japan itself, and so I traveled along the eastern coast of Korea in rather dangerous situations, and when I had reached Himeji City in Japan the war ended.
How can Zazen help us be happy? It is just the happiest condition to practice Zazen itself.
How can we practice Zazen in our daily chores? Since moving to my new residence, where I am living now, I have begun cooking by myself, and so I have found the fact clearly that even my cooking in my daily life has also the characteristics of action. Therefore my cooking can be also a kind of Buddhist efforts, of course, even though I am practicing Zazen two times a day everyday. Reality is the Truth. Therefore the Universe is also the Truth.
What are some of your favourite quotes from the Shobogenzo, and why? For example, “It is just moment by moment of red mind, upon which we rely solely.
The words “red mind” suggest sincere mind, and this is a description of Master Dogen’s daily life. How can a Zen Master help a student?