Zen master dogen biography of rory and dean

Mingyur rinpoche refuge

After practicing from an early age in Japan with some of the leading Buddhist teachers of his time he traveled to China to study Chan Chinese Zen for three years, returning to Japan to found the monastery which to this day is the main training center for Soto Zen monks. In a word, his reinterpretation was radically non-dual.

That is, he saw that Zen masters, in their effort to go beyond the seeming dualism of normative Buddhism in which Nirvana and Samsara, enlightenment and ignorance, seem to be opposite states of being had merely created new dualisms. You do get the impression in reading Zen literature, for instance, that meditation is good but thought is bad; action is good reflection is bad, and so on.

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