Today we'll scat with Dogen's jazz in Shobogenzo Nyorai Zenshin (The Buddha Whole Body). Some 700 or so years before modern jazz folks, Dōgen had the equivalent jazzy approach, taking “standard” Mahayana Buddhist teachings, fanciful but traditional Buddhist images, and “samples” of quotes from well-known stories related to his intended topics, tearing them apart, and tossing all back together again, remixing them, in order to discover and uncover new feelings, sounds, implications, visions, and Wisdom, all in what was often pretty wild imagery to start with!
Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:
June 2-3 2023 -OUR MONTHLY 4-hr ZAZENKAI- Nyorai Zenshin -A Mini-Lesson in Dogen Jazz
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Genjo Koan 5
Genjo Koan 4 - Being time
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Genjo Koan 2
Genjo Koan 1 - To Study the Self
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SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Just This
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SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Okesa 3
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Whattsa Who'sa Bodhisattva? - Maitreya
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Okesa 1
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Knocking Down Monastery Walls
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