Dogen

JAPAN · 13TH CENTURY

LVL 17 ◈ Monk of Void 4 Teachings

75 / 75

+54 per encounter

Temperament

“Monastic, precise, tender. A paragraph can take a year.”

Specialties

zazen dropping body-mind uji time soto practice

Attributes

Wisdom

9/10

Courage

6/10

Clarity

9/10

Discipline

10/10

Compassion

6/10

Insight

8/10

Drop · Relic

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Ink-Stained Robe A black garment that remembers every sesshins silence.

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Biography

Founder of Soto Zen who returned from China declaring eyes horizontal, nose vertical. He wrote the Shobogenzo as if each paragraph were a pressed flower.

Teaching 01

“Practice and enlightenment are not two. They are one seamless cloth.”

— Shobogenzo · Japanese

Teaching 02

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”

— Shobogenzo · Japanese

Teaching 03

“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.”

— Shobogenzo · Japanese

Teaching 04

“A teaching will arrive when the student is ready.”

— Dogen