- 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.                                                 ________________________

1.11.2021

אין לנו צרך באב בשמים
אין לו מקום בעולם או בכלל
אין פיסגה לצורות ולא דמות שתומכת
השוטים יבקשו משפחתם כחיות

יש מקור לדברים -
לא נשען הוא על רגש
וארור המביא דבר הבל דוחה

הקיים הוא קיים
ואיננו איננו
ואין יסודנו דובר ביד זה

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