- 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.                                                 ________________________

As short as possible

Jesus speaks of his “Father in Heaven”. The father is not in Heaven. The father is what in Hindu is referred to as “Brahman”, the “Tao” of Lao Tse, the reality Gudo Nishijima - as others, - speaks about. Whatever the reason Jesus was using the expression as he did, - you might say the Heaven is in the Father, - not the other way around. - If it exists at all, - that is: - You might say nothing exists at all else than this “father” - the reality, - and all else is its dream, our dream, - but put this aside, - and I have not witnessed this last point, - if we do see the Heaven and the Earth as existing, - than they are inside of the father, - never have left its womb, - as I said in the beginning.

Written on September 12th 2001. I might wish someone else would have written it, - but as I do not know of anyone who did in an accessible manner here on the web, - I wrote this. So far.
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