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Stop idle talk! (Talk on Dogen's "Hachi-dainingaku" Pt 5)

I am giving a monthly Zoom talk to the residents at ‪@antai_ji‬. This is the English portion of my fifth and last talk on Dogen's "Eight realizations of an adult practitioner (Hachi-dainingaku)", the last chapter of the Shobogenzo, held on March 24th, 2025. You can find the Japanese part on my Japanese channel ‪@nelkem‬. English translation by Nishijima Roshi: "The eight truths of a great human being 1) Small desire. 2) To know satisfaction. 3) To enjoy tranquility. 4) To practice diligence. 5) Not to lose mindfulness. 6) To practice the balanced state of dhyāna. 7) To practice wisdom. (To engender hearing, thinking, practice, and experience is called “wisdom.”) The Buddha said: If you bhikṣus have wisdom, then you will be without greed and attachment. By constantly reflecting on and observing yourself, you will prevent [wisdom] from being lost. This is just to be able, within my Dharma, to attain liberation. If you are not so, already you are different from people of the truthand also different from those clothed in white; there is nothing to call you. Truly, wisdom is a sturdy ship in which to cross the ocean of aging, sickness, and death. Again, it is a great bright torch for the darkness of ignorance, it is good medicine for all sick people, and it is a sharp ax to fell the trees of anguish. For this reason, you should hear, consider, and practice wisdom and thereby develop yourself. If a human being possesses the light of wisdom, he or she is—although with eyes of flesh—a human being of clear vision. This is called “wisdom.” 8) Not to engage in idle discussion. (To experience, to go beyond discrimination, is called “not to engage in idle discussion.” To perfectly realize real form is just not to engage in idle discussion.) The Buddha said: If you bhikṣus engage in all kinds of idle discussion your mind will be disturbed. Although you have left family life, still you will be unable to get free. For this reason, bhikṣus, you should immediately throw away disturbing idle discussion. If you wish to attain the joy of serenity you should just inhibit well the fault of idle discussion. This is called “not to engage in idle discussion.” These are the eight truths of a great human being. Each is equipped with the eight, and so there may be sixty-four. When we extend them, they may be countless. If we abridge them, they are sixty-four. “They are the last preaching of Great Master Śākyamuni; they are the instruction of the Great Vehicle; and they are the [Buddha’s] supreme swan song, in the middle of the night of the fifteenth day of the second month.” After this, he does not preach the Dharma again, and finally he passes into parinirvāṇa. The Buddha said: You bhikṣus constantly should endeavor, with undivided mind, to pursue the truth of liberation. All the dharmas of the world, moving and unmoving, without exception are perishing and unstable forms. Let yourselves stop for a while, and talk no more. Time must pass, and I am going to die. This is my last instruction. Therefore, disciples of the Tathāgata unfailingly learn this [instruction]. Those who do not practice and learn it, and who do not know it, are not the Buddha’s disciples. It is the Tathāgata’s right Dharma-eye treasury and fine mind of nirvana. Nevertheless, today many do not know it and few have seen or heard it; it is due to the trickery of demons that they do not know. Again, those lacking in long-accumulated good roots neither hear nor see [this instruction]. During the bygone days of the right Dharma and the imitative Dharma, all disciples of the Buddha knew it. They practiced it and learned it in experience. Now there is not one or two among a thousand bhikṣus who knows the eight truths of a great human being. It is pitiful. There is nothing even to compare to the insidious degeneration of [these] decadent times. While the Tathāgata’s right Dharma is now [still] permeating the great-thousandfold [world], while the immaculate Dharma has not yet disappeared, we should learn it without delay. Do not be slack or lazy. To meet the Buddha-Dharma, even in countless kalpas, is hard. To receive a human body also is hard. Even in receiving the human body, human bodies on the three continents are better. Human bodies on the southern continent are best of all—because they meet Buddha, hear the Dharma, leave family life, and attain the truth. People who died prior to the Tathāgata’s parinirvāṇa neither heard nor learned these eight truths of a great human being. That now we are seeing and hearing them, and learning them, is due to long-accumulated good roots. In learning them now, in developing them life by life and arriving without fail at the supreme [truth of] bodhi, and in preaching them for living beings, may we become the same as Śākyamuni Buddha; may there be no differences. (https://www.bdk.or.jp/document/dgtl-d...) Support me: https://sendaba.hatenablog.com/entry/... #Zen #Zazen #Practice