{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/tib/dogen-01.htm","path":"bud/tib/dogen-01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/tib/dogen-01.htm","text":"[This document can be acquired from a sub-directory coombspapers via anonymous\nFTP and/or COOMBSQUEST gopher on the node COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU]\nThe document's ftp filename and the full directory path are given in the\ncoombspapers top level INDEX file]\n[This version: 28 July 1993]\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\nTITLE: The Buddha's essential functioning\nAUTHOR: Eihei DOGEN\nSOURCE: The Ten Directions, Vol 2, No 2, June 1981. pp. 20\nNOTES: A poem by Eihei Dogen Zenji, written approx. 1242, translated\nby Taizan MAEZUMI, Roshi and Neal DONNER. It complements an earlier poem by\nHung-chih Cheng-chueh [T'ien-t'ung Hung-chih ] (J.Tendo Wanshi)\nThe Buddha's essential functioning,\nthe partriarchs' functioning essence,\nmanifest without deliberation\nand acomplishes without hindrance.\nManifesting without deliberation,\nits manifestation is intimate of itself.\nAccomplishing without hindrance,\nits accomplishement is realized of itself.\nIts manifestation, intimate of itself,\nhas never been defiled.\nIts accomplishement, realized of itself,\nis neither absolute nor relative.\nThe intimacy that is never defiled\ndrops away without dependence.\nThe realization that is neither absolute nor relative\npenetrates without intent.\nClear water soaks into the earth;\nthe fish swims like a fish.\nThe sky is vast and penetrates the heavens;\nthe bird flies like a bird.\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\nend of file","title":"The Buddha's essential functioning","type":"page"}