« Leave the body-mind »
Dogen’s body-mind, the one that must be « left » according to the famous injunction given to monks in zazen, can also refer to the corporeal part of the spirit, that is, the mind, a layer of consciousness that we must first disengage from in order to go beyond, investigate, engage with, and reunite with the supra-corporeal spirit.
Leave the body of the mind.
Notes & Silence 
Rather raises the question of whether Dogen conceived of a « non-body mind ».
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I’m surprised at your understanding of Dogen.
However, I believe we must admit Dogen is for ever un-understandable.
We should beware of anyone claiming he does.
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I never claimed to understand him, and his stuff is readable only in relatively short bursts, I find.
I’m not sure if he was not simply playing a fun, philosophical game.
I know nothing.
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Oh I was not thinking about you.
I was not thinking about anyone in particular
I was not thinking at all
Which may as well be the problem.
Or the solution.
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Ha!
I just wanted to refute the suggestion of having sufficient understanding to surprise anyone.
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Oh that is too bad. I was expecting to be surprised.
In which case, it would not have been much of a surprised.
Now that you have defused any form of expectation through your comment,
I guess ‘being’ surprised can happen again.
I do not expect anything.
I can therefore be surprised and I’m trying hard to ignore this reality, fully aware that I’m trapped in a rhetorical loop here.
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Surprisingly so.
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