Quotes from The Great Ocean Samadhi chapter from Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo

Quotes from The Great Ocean Samadhi chapter from Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo:

The Buddha once said in verse:

Merely of various elements is this body of Mine composed.

The time of its arising is merely an arising of elements;

The time of its vanishing is merely a vanishing of elements.

As these elements arise, I do not speak of the arising of an ‘I’,

And as these elements vanish, I do not speak of the vanishing of an ‘I’.

Previous instants and succeeding instants are not a series of instants that depend on each other;

Previous elements and succeeding elements are not a series of elements that stand against each other.

To give all of this a name, I call it ‘the meditative state that bears the seal of the Ocean’.

#dependent origination 

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#impermanence

#not-self

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