- As for the blog's name: -


I was @ Gustav Ericsson's sight, - Anzenkai, and I was looking at Nishijima Roshi’s calligraphies over there. Particularly there is one - "seki shin hen pen" - about which Gustav has earlier said in a blog post that it is Nishijima's favorite phrase from Master Dogen.

This seemed strange to me. It was not what I would expect Nishijima Roshi's favorite phrase to be. It seemed it could be some Rinzai master's favorite quote, - it seems to express continuous and constant sincerity, - but it did not seem to fit my view of the way Nishijima Roshi saw things.

So - consequently - I tried to think what would I expect his favorite quote to be. But all phrases I could think of did not seem to fit just what I might have had in mind.

So I tried to come up with what I would see it as, - and what I have come up with - is - "this universe out here".

- And this seems to be the right name for this blog here too.


- Definitely.                                                 ________________________

- The Vicinity of the Incomparable -

Master Rinzai (Linji Yixuan) said “If you are your own master wherever you stand is the pure land”. Dogen says “Someone who randomly affects the forms of teaching others, without arriving in this field of earth, is a great nuisance to human beings and gods”. (Shōbōgenzō Keisei-sanshiki) A master, a “Zen” master, - is one who has arrived at the state of Buddha, at the state of a buddha, - all other ideas or interpretations, however popular recently in the west, - are bullshit. I may have used a less severe word was I writing in Hebrew, - but in English there doesn’t seem to be an exact match, - “vanity” would be the closest, - as it seems, - but the meaning would anyway be the same.

           (Just to make clear, - I never intend to imply I came to this state, - but I would never want to take on as a teacher someone who hasn’t)
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