THE ATLAS OF THE EMPTY THRONE

Dōgen

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Founder of Sōtō Zen in Japan and author of the Shōbōgenzō — some of the strangest and most beautiful philosophical prose ever written, on time as being, on firewood not becoming ash, on the practice that is not a means to awakening because it already is it.

The tradition's greatest literary philosopher, and the clearest statement that sitting is not preparation for anything.

To study the self is to forget the self.

rhymes with

sephirahtiferet

whyTiferet is the beauty that comes of holding a thing in balance — and Dōgen's balance is practice and realisation refusing to be two.