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by Matylda
Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:40 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition
Replies: 21
Views: 868

Re: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition

As for the Gendai sōjizen hyōron... I am aware that it is rinzai thing. But I think it is worth of adding... probably the English translation of its koan part was more interesting for people in the West. I can understand it due to serious misunderstanding what koans are, but that is ok. Please look ...
by Matylda
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:16 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition
Replies: 21
Views: 868

Re: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition

Before Hakuin there were many approaches to koans in rinzai including Bankei`s position. Can you say more about Bankei’s position? He stressed inherent buddha mind and no-birth. Buddha mind is the title of a famous book written by Asahina Sogen roshi, and is addressed in length by current abbot of ...
by Matylda
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:49 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition
Replies: 21
Views: 868

Re: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition

Generally koans in soto zen were not practiced exactly like in Hakuin zenji`s line. It is something new in rinzai. Before Hakuin there were many approaches to koans in rinzai including Bankei`s position. In soto koans were intensively practiced since XIII century, but there were many ways to practic...
by Matylda
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:38 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition
Replies: 21
Views: 868

Re: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition

Thanks for that, i read Hoffman's book in the mid 70's and i was not impressed at the time, actually i thought it was a silly book. It was and is a silly book, published simply as a money-maker for another bandwagon-jumping profiteer. I am under the impression that some people (not his serious stud...
by Matylda
Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:34 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition
Replies: 21
Views: 868

Re: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition

Perhaps not really important, but according to Yoel Hoffman's translation (The Sound of the One Hand- 281 Zen Koans with Answers) and also Wikipedia, the Gendai sōjizen hyōron by Tominaga Shūho was first published in 1916. Yes you are right it was probably August 1912. Untill 1935 there were 4 edit...
by Matylda
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition
Replies: 21
Views: 868

Re: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition

So the claim is that "early in the 20th century" the Soto school discovered that they did not have enough people who had attained "kensho", and so they decided to start lowering their standards for priesthood in order to solve a staffing problem? No. Nobody searched within soto ...
by Matylda
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:15 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition
Replies: 21
Views: 868

Re: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition

curtstein wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:36 pm
While the primacy of an “awakening” is still maintained in koan traditions etc.
No it does not. Unfortunately. Nowdays passing koans have hardly anything to do with awakening. Some do believe that passing koans are equal to awakening, but actually koans are passed without such thing.
by Matylda
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:24 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition
Replies: 21
Views: 868

Re: A specific historical claim about the Soto tradition

It was Mitra Bishop – the 14th interview I conducted – who explained to me that in order to ensure an adequate number of priests to serve the elaborate temple system it had established, the Soto sect “officially dispensed with the need for kensho in order to be able to teach early in the 20th centu...
by Matylda
Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:47 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: Roshi and Zenji
Replies: 2
Views: 518

Re: Roshi and Zenji

What is the diffrence between roshi and zenji? roshi means just old master zenji exact meaning is zen master zenji is mostly given as a posthumous title of a zen master. however in soto zen abbots of the two main monasteries namely Eiheiji and Sojiji are addressed as zenji, while still alive. in ri...
by Matylda
Sun Feb 04, 2024 1:54 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: No-Self Concept
Replies: 19
Views: 1206

Re: No-Self Concept

I don’t know what kind of zen you were learning. If no-self were not a concept in Zen, it wouldn’t be Buddha Dharma. Well, whatever. Anyway, zen has no concepts if there are, there is no zen. Mixing zen with concepts even from sutras is grave mistake. Wether it happens in Taiwan Japan or anywhere e...
by Matylda
Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:31 am
Forum: Zen
Topic: No-Self Concept
Replies: 19
Views: 1206

Re: No-Self Concept

Hi, I've been absorbing as far as I can the no-self concept that the ego construct is a major cause of suffering. As a trainee psychotherapist, the concept of ego/self is important too and I am trying to align both within and without me, which is a challenge. I liked the way I have seen it put, tha...
by Matylda
Sun Oct 01, 2023 7:10 am
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: Yogacara manual
Replies: 18
Views: 1297

Re: Yogacara manual

Havent read it, but heard good things about this one: Living Yogacara by Tagawa Shun’ei Tagawa Shun'ei is the abbot of Kofukuji in Nara, the head temple of the Hosso school of Japanese Buddhism. I did not read this book, but Hosso is the Japanese yogachara school, so it could be good source of info...
by Matylda
Mon Jul 31, 2023 1:12 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: American Soto Zen
Replies: 293
Views: 19204

Re: American Soto Zen

Astus wrote: Mon Jul 31, 2023 12:18 pm
Matylda wrote: Mon Jul 31, 2023 8:18 amInka is completely diffrent issue.
It is also based on the idea that the buddha-mind is transmitted from one generation to another, is it not?
Is it? Well if you know, then ok.
by Matylda
Mon Jul 31, 2023 8:18 am
Forum: Soto
Topic: American Soto Zen
Replies: 293
Views: 19204

Re: American Soto Zen

The definition does not mean anything. ... It is not inka, which is meant to be a confirmation of thorough realization. ... The whole discussion would have never taken place if dharma transmission had been as you suggested. On paper, by definition, dharma transmission means the transmission of budd...
by Matylda
Sun Jul 30, 2023 11:20 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: American Soto Zen
Replies: 293
Views: 19204

Re: American Soto Zen

How could it not exist today when the definition is still very much in use? Here's another one: '“Dharma transmission” is defined as experiencing face-to-face transmission between master and disciple, receiving the Three Things, and realizing preservation of the Dharma Lamp.' The definition does no...
by Matylda
Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:36 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: American Soto Zen
Replies: 293
Views: 19204

Re: American Soto Zen

The idea of dharma transmission in Zen, Soto included, is the recognition of the disciple's awakening being the same as that of Shakyamuni Buddha, as exemplified by the so called Flower Sermon. But his does not exist for long time already. Today the meaning is that one becomes a priest and is allow...
by Matylda
Sun Jul 30, 2023 5:04 pm
Forum: Soto
Topic: American Soto Zen
Replies: 293
Views: 19204

Re: American Soto Zen

There is no guarantee that will find proper person. The question is if one who is accepted as a realised teacher can confirm a disciple who is not realised? If yes, then lineage is meaningless. If no, then all within a lineage must be accepted in the same way as the original teacher. This is first ...
by Matylda
Sun Jul 30, 2023 11:13 am
Forum: Soto
Topic: American Soto Zen
Replies: 293
Views: 19204

Re: American Soto Zen

And since there is documented lineage, why did they (the last realized Soto Zen teachers) confirm others who were not realized? Or were they confused/mistaken when they confirmed others? When the teacher gives inka to the disciple and entire dharma transmission, the disciple takes then full respons...
by Matylda
Sun Jul 30, 2023 11:10 am
Forum: Soto
Topic: American Soto Zen
Replies: 293
Views: 19204

Re: American Soto Zen

Matylda, If one was to accept what I believe is your view that there are no realized (Japanese) Soto Zen teachers, can you tell me who were the last realized Soto Zen teachers? Hara tanzan, Watanabe Genshu, Harada Sogaku, Koho Chisan, Nagasawa Sozen, and probably a few more. All of them received in...
by Matylda
Sun Jul 30, 2023 7:48 am
Forum: Soto
Topic: American Soto Zen
Replies: 293
Views: 19204

Re: American Soto Zen

The issues sound specific to those temples, but indirectly related to the broader collapse of Japanese Buddhist institutions. I understand the lack of young people interested in temple life pretty much applies across all sects. I would be interested to see if the success of those Rinzai Sodos is on...

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