On 4/19/2014 6:28 PM, [email protected] wrote: > You are already awareness itself and don't require some kind of > "awareness of awareness". This attempt to locate a self-reflexive > awareness is just a mental simulation of what it might be like. A > confused one at that. No wonder you are so confused. You'd be better > giving up this delusive "taza" for some mo-chao. Read it weep. > In Dogen's Zen practice, the primary realization is the *oneness* of practice-enlightenment. The practice of zazen and the experience of enlightenment are one and the same - there is no difference - no duality. Dogen is most often referring specifically to shikantaza, roughly translatable as "nothing but precisely sitting", which is a kind of sitting meditation in which the meditator sits "in a state of brightly alert attention that is free of thoughts, directed to no object, and attached to no particular content". For Dogen, the practice of zazen and the experience of enlightenment were one and the same.
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