Shinjin Gakudo - thezensite
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Shōbōgenzō: On Learning the Way Through Body and Mind 500<br />
directions, can reverse Itself and turn Its head around. 18 In reversing Itself and<br />
turning Its head around, It may look the size of a penny, or It may resemble the<br />
inside of a tiny mote of dust. The flat level ground is a precipitous cliff rising a<br />
thousand feet high. And the precipitous cliff rising a thousand feet high is the flat<br />
level ground. This is why there is the look of the southern continent and the look of<br />
the northern continent; by examining these, we learn the Way. 19 There is the Bones<br />
and Marrow of ‘being beyond deliberately trying to think about something and<br />
being beyond deliberately trying not to think about anything’. Only by our<br />
resisting the tendency to deliberately manipulate our thinking do we learn the Way.<br />
Delivered to the assembly at Kōshōhōrin-ji Temple on the double good fortune day (the ninth day<br />
of the ninth lunar month) in the third year of the Ninji era (October 3, 1242).<br />
Copied by me on the second day of the beginning of mid-spring in the fourth year of the Ninji era<br />
(February 22, 1243).<br />
Ejō<br />
18. That is, just as our physical body can turn itself around and go a different way, so our minds<br />
can also turn away from delusion and toward enlightenment.<br />
19. The southern continent of Jambudvipa is associated with the world of human beings who are<br />
capable of learning because they are aware of their suffering, whereas the northern continent<br />
of Uttarakuru is associated with the world of celestial beings who see no need to train<br />
because they are, at the moment, enjoying a constantly easy and blissful existence.