It’s interesting to note that, for Dogen, in Bendowa, one « falls » into dualism.
Thus, like a misstep, the practitioner misses the trapeze and falls into the net of dualism.
To escape non-dualism is like losing one’s balance on a tightrope stretched above the void.
The dualism into which one is thus crushed remains, nevertheless, a flexible net that prevents a complete fall.
A net from which one could resume practice and discover, or reconnect with, the acrobat’s instinct.
Dogen seems to require mental acrobatics – maybe with the intention of exhausting the individual until the somersaults are abandoned.
Maybe dualism not wrong, but incomplete? A limited view that fails to recognise the overarching unity…?
J’aimeAimé par 1 personne
This latter comment would as well apply to non dualism, therefore.
As for Dogen, ….I think he never meant to be understood..or, unless men of his generation were intellectual athletes, he meant to speak the truth and never care how it would come across…
Mutatis mutandis, pretty much like the book Simulacra and Simulation (??) I’ve just finished, by a French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard…I think you’d love it.
Totally mind-blowing, not a single pedagogical effort. Raw and rough.
Or, it’s just me being stupid;
You tell me if you read it.
J’aimeAimé par 1 personne