Zazen Is the Dharma of All Buddhas

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When a monk asked Jakuen what teaching he had received from Rujing at Tiantong-shan, Jakuen said: 'The great master Rujing said: zazen is the dharma of all buddhas. It is not a method, not a technique, not a stage on a path. When you sit, all dharmas sit with you. When you arise, nothing has moved. This I received, and this I give.' Monk: 'Is there anything beyond sitting?' Jakuen: 'Try standing up without moving.'

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Speaker
  Jakuen

Lineage: Sōtō

By Jakuen

• Two Streams, One Sourcedialogue
• Death Verse of Jakuenverse

From Hōkyō-ji Temple Records

• Two Streams, One Source
• Death Verse of Jakuen

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Hōkyō-ji temple lineage records; cf. Bodiford, Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan, pp. 31–34

  Hōkyō-ji Temple Records: Zazen Is the Dharma of All Buddhas