Tanahashi, Kazuaki (2011).
Shobogenzo
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
On the great road of buddha
ancestors there is always
unsurpassable practice,
continuous and sustained. It
forms the circle of the way and is
never cut off.' Between
aspiration, practice,
enlightenment, and nirvana,
there is not a moment's gap;
continuous practice is the circle
of the way. This being so,
continuous practice is undivided,
not forced by you or others. The
power of this continuous practice
confirms you as well as others. It
means your practice affects the
entire earth and the entire sky in
the ten directions. Although not
noticed by others or by yourself,
it is so.
Nishiyama, Kosen. (1975) …
Dogen Zenji’s Shobogenzo.
In the Great Way of the Buddhas
and Patriarchs surely there is
supreme ceaseless practice that
continues endlessly. There is not
the slightest gap between
awakening the mind, practice,
enlightenment, and nirvana;
ceaseless practice continuously
revolves. Therefore, it does not
depend on individual powerful
acts nor on the spirit of others. It
is undefiled ceaseless practice.
The virtue of ceaseless practice
maintains self and others.
Essentially, our ceaseless practice
fills heaven and earth and
influences everything with its
virtue. Although we may be
unaware of it, it still occurs.
Nishijima, G. & Cross, C. (1994).
Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo.
In the great truth of the Buddhist
patriarchs, there is always [pure]
conduct and observance [of
precepts] above which there is
nothing. It continues in an
unbroken cycle, so that there is
not the slightest interval
between establishment of the
mind, training, bodhi, and
nirvana: conduct and
observance is a continuing
cycle. For this reason, it is not
doing that is forced from
ourselves and it is not doing that
is forced from outside; it is
conduct and observance that has
never been tainted. The virtue of
this conduct and observance
maintains ourselves and
maintains the outside world. The
import is that in the moment of
my conduct and observance the
whole earth and whole sky
through the ten directions are
totally covered by the virtue [of
my conduct and observance].
Shasta Abby (2007).
by Great Master Dogen.
The Great Way of Buddhas and
Ancestors invariably involves
unsurpassed ceaseless practice.
This practice rolls on in a cyclic
manner without interruption. Not
a moment’s gap has occurred in
Their giving rise to the
intention to realize
Buddhahood, in Their doing the
training and practice, in Their
experiencing enlightenment,
and in Their realizing nirvana,
for the Great Way of ceaseless
practice rolls on just like this.
As a result, the practice is not
done by forcing oneself to do it
and it is not done by being forced
to do it by someone else: it is a
ceaseless practice that is never
tainted by forcing. The merits
from this ceaseless practice
sustain us and sustain others.
Others do not know it, and I do
not know it, but it is so.