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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SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Koan Misunderstandings, Koan Dogma
SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: BIG & small
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SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha
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SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: WHAT'S NEXT!?!
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SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality
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SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: the sound of a bell
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XIV)- Child Comes Home
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming-(XIII)-Child in Hospital
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Fukanzazengi 4
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Dogen - A Love Supreme
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Dogen is SO OLD!
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Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (Part XXI)
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