tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76436371242915818682024-03-18T08:18:37.566-04:00Cuke Archives DailyNotes on cuke.com an archival site on the life and world of Shunryu Suzuki and those who knew him. Home to Crooked Cucumber Archives (Cuke Project).Peter Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367965385831411279noreply@blogger.comBlogger4921125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643637124291581868.post-48702058721770685912024-03-18T08:18:00.000-04:002024-03-18T08:18:02.087-04:00Founders<p style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: medium;">
Nowadays we have various sects in China and Japan, but why so many founders of various schools make that kind of effort is only to understand who was Buddha. When someone found Buddha was such and such person, he became a founder of some school. All the effort we have been making is to know who is Buddha and what was his teaching. So, for a Buddhist, Buddha is not just a historical person. He is truth itself.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1042" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="929" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMvdmwFxXB0rLPDBOXbxhpXqflz67XZVdcHroPFJZKDydVzZzlxvWJPPRDyiSP24BcUh_GaloYe4m-LzH3tErbGV0W5pvjWIPH4S7dLbKC4WPc2b_DxefggjB6_CN_AFaE1yITC5ljYm0-NUP6dynrY2hhW-uSvzDky24_g5MIr2N47raarAUsgmxASfg/w400-h300/arnow-eric-1000-templeP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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Photo of Chinese Temple by Eric Arnow
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The sutras usually look like they were spoken by the historical Buddha himself. But our Buddhist sutras were not actually spoken by him. So when you read sutras, if you think they were spoken by Buddha himself, you will be confused because there are actually many elements in them which did not exist in Buddha’s time. When sutras were compiled, they included various thoughts from their time. Buddhist thought developed from the understanding of the direct disciples of Buddha to that of Buddhists several generations afterward.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1040" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="500" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwIkHPBLKqB_mQXkt_j4Q_textT9MgeJpMk86d-TkNKYIcwnvtLsL60WXkNPkmYfUcwB0dNt5R1_da6jkKNuJycLEH21kH9ImoWdCJ8Ygm1Oy8N3pED0PnoUw3XMtkZKHJE867Y5IoORmBiLKnk-w4tItRxtX4ZAYNcm7YQ4tHe04dE5XqlnCO8IilNcA/w400-h250/diamond-sutra-600aP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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Peter Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367965385831411279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643637124291581868.post-41443778120332715302024-03-15T11:31:00.000-04:002024-03-15T11:31:52.805-04:00Many Buddhas<p style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: medium;">
Maitreya Buddha is the buddha who will come. There must be a future buddha too. We call him by the name of Maitreya. Buddha attained enlightenment and saw his Dharma Nature, so he became the Nirmanakaya Buddha. And he also knew the source of his buddhahood. He recognized himself as the seventh patriarch or seventh buddha. Before Buddha there were seven buddhas. But seven doesn’t mean just seven, but many. He didn’t say, “I am the first one.” He acknowledged many buddhas before him. He is one of the many buddhas, and he is Maitreya Buddha also.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1039" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="321" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwYbFy7c9zMAKF5QYfEVHHWQRVoiNEK9uy-ZCHLfGAJrnbb2lFXGBp-TW6WDYE5zWStw5sRxKK_BYhpTHGzdW9wB_fKzwib3rs8FgXc9R729O_aJ2G-diME3CbN5EGEassRCIWxIfH2R575iV04zG63jfJ7f_AoIdfVVEm3l7LDRd512xyfaAz7SKom6o/s320/Texts-for-Daily-Services-A-Study-Guide-Buddha-P.jpg" width="288" /></a></div>
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Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-00-B as found on
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What we mean by “buddha,” what we mean by “patriarchs” is the same. When we point out, one by one as successive teachers, we call them first, second, third patriarch. But they are all buddhas. So, not different, but the way we call them is different.
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Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-00-B as found on
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Peter Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367965385831411279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643637124291581868.post-53890224427450133212024-03-13T11:40:00.000-04:002024-03-13T11:40:33.676-04:00One Whole Buddhism<p style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: medium;">
Since we have arrived at this kind of understanding, there will be no need to talk about what Theravada or Mahayana Buddhism is. All Buddhism, whether it is Theravada or Mahayana, is one whole Buddhism. This is how we have transmitted his teaching from Buddha to us. And the purpose of this scripture is to describe our Dharma Nature.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1037" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="714" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSBVOKJh1VBSb2CJpZsw_wKY72mxcifhXYvv29UNH4cZCPoA4q_2cuLbH9QiTcd1eiC7btma9JOVg_msnfMsqdvOjqO06arhlxffkyMYJBvNNc01SV9zfmLiZ0YmKlU8c5nn8Y7VN9HjZOxcO27Zs3rycAjqCet2tLuv71U-NNBfRGumCb9Ulcj7yOUvE/w400-h269/retreat-report-4-16-P.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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From Bali Vipassana Retreat Report, April 2016
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Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-00-B as found on
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<p style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: medium;">Peter Coyote is a Zen teacher, writer, activist, actor, and that's just a start. Visit his <a href="http://www.cuke.com/people/coyote.htm" target="_blank"><b>Cuke page</b></a> to listen to his podcast, learn about his new book and much more. Keep an eye out for a second podcast with Peter on our <a href="http://cuke.com/TOC-podcast.htm#ZenGuests" target="_blank"><b>Podcast page</b></a>.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; text-align:center;"><a href="http://cuke.com/f " target="_blank"><b>http://cuke.com/f</b></a></p>Peter Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367965385831411279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643637124291581868.post-13615219774705650742024-03-11T11:29:00.002-04:002024-03-11T11:29:51.653-04:00Buddha Becomes Real Buddha<p style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: medium;">
Buddha understood how he should help others. But he was Buddha because he is Enlightened One. He was illuminated in his own nature, Dharma Nature, and everyone’s nature. So, he knows who he is. And for him there are no disciples, and there is no objective world. So, he says all sentient beings are his sons, part of him. So, only when we understand Buddha as Sambhogakaya Buddha and Dharmakaya Buddha, Buddha becomes real Buddha.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1035" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="752" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzvKHSok5N2vy-IwmBCWwxOth-WjU0Eawwx2Qpsr1s5QiPUtOPzW2AjLTsRRYkJC5AtI7IQyLJ-mKSYFifNGIN13EGfC_JZl1j_a024K9-FbaeMTDa7g_Grr5H7BfHuTZwPK7mc4pmrjsHPpkyRn0z_39emqmttPRE1-oeEj2aHQmUu3dlYSBRCUw23ZA/s320/73-00-p1-Buddha-1000bP.jpg" width="289" /></a></div>
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Gandhara Buddha at SFZC
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Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-00-B as found on
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<p style="font-size: small; text-align:center;">Interview with Bob Walter</p>
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Buddha did not stick to the words he told. He was like a great doctor who gives his patient a prescription. According to the person, he gave various prescriptions. So that is just a prescription, and he did not have any idea of giving the same prescription [laughs] to various patients.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1033" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="295" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht2L1aHQaMwpsD6kjLOaJ7Zo21KeNUAlntoMR33WUvUG8evB9qKdOX8nrVx84QgfuIPGiqNkPHlXfkjpqWtjN9baQEWzLqgvxAV1N1-R81J76ISQzckf8EpVfiIJuE3V2Aso8N9j_r49CfttBK1uLyH_atykYCpb7bjsq0PKEE9xWIAGCfLNEwdnDqMgY/s320/levine-int-P.jpg" width="250" /></a></div>
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Photo of Dr. Richard Levine by Sophie Tanbert Gehan
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Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-00-B as found on
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The way to help others, and the way we preserve our teaching, and the way we practice Buddhism is different—there is a difference between Nirmanakaya Buddha and Sambhogakaya Buddha. But when we realize that our practice includes everything, why don’t we include a Nirmanakaya Buddha? Shakyamuni Buddha is included in our practice. So, all the Shakyamuni buddhas and all the Nirmanakaya buddhas, all at once will attain enlightenment, when we practice zazen [laughs]. So, Nirmanakaya Buddha is within ourselves.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="582" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8QNemem_1GYb5cluNndiVHjFHTUiG4z1f-QTBFPVrliEZWS3QVuLrUaXsKDdbPOiO7XqPJCltT4NFGVLpk6fAj8yxfQjF2EMNlhMPgokVfcJkiAs_C6fuLxnVdTOXlfH259-0Ol-oh_cpwwV0F7H1ZXZe2UoF4CQVaC7G0GG3o-_FO45xkmUlC0UAevc/w298-h400/69-03-04-p1-buddhas-1000b-P.jpg" width="298" /></a></div>
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Jizo Bosatsu and Kanzeon Bosatsu statues
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You are a part of me, you know. If we reach this kind of understanding when practicing zazen, you have no “you” and no “others”; your practice includes everything. Everything will take place within yourself. So, there is no objective world anymore. So, without trying to help others, you will help others anyway. That is Sambhogakaya Buddha.
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How to help others as Nirmanakaya Buddha is to take various forms and give them some handy help. But as Sambhogakaya Buddha we should know our nature. And we should realize that there is no “I” and no “you”—it is all one being. When we realize this nature, which is universal, we can help others without trying to help others because whatever we do, that is our activity.
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Sunday school at Sokoji
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The Japanese term for truth is <i>ri</i>, and the Japanese term for various beings is <i>ji</i>. Ji and ri are very important, key technical words in Buddhism. When we realize ri in its true sense, we are Sambhogakaya Buddha. When we observe things as we observe the objective world, and when we want to help people involved in the objective or materialistic world, we are Nirmanakaya Buddha.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1029" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="540" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZT2IdXtVgveiPl_qnmHfPerycUKlcyeLh-suhiaHvtAXzxELWU0rQzuyMZVuLqTsCTTC0l1i7rD-6WCNypVjiLXLLbZuE_yid9VGDLWv_pMbI2gm3aDx4maO4hpNb-oapprm_Zo_7bbVeLXuwzeTRn9xFehHLFF5kXlXDhW8CgkuU7d-RerheO7YEzxI/w273-h400/thanas-katherine-truth-P.jpg" width="273" /></a></div>
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So, sometimes dharma means teaching, sometimes reality, sometimes it means being, just something there.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1028" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="640" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXVgKnmcisd-v2X7BbLFE4bghIgrW5oubt1DVcsHr_igpQJchEw31-ToJUO1S_vmJnsluKO_rpfSxSvQrb2BHMURGEifDc0vEfbZYkQfU8KsqnAJI1RhE_N4wdO3bAX322ECRanIJW5qr1C-A_tc7Qy3RognJlRyhKqlE-kKr6D0hETVHXPSmxaVKpeDA/w400-h295/rinsoin-atkeison-sign-P.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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Photo of temple sign in Kyoto by Andrew Atkeison
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There is no way, but [laughs] if you allow me to speak [laughs, laughter] something about Dharma Body, we call it “truth itself.” Truth. Truth is something which you cannot see. You can see the apple, but the theory of gravitation you cannot see it. But there is some theory, some truth. So, nothing happens just by accident. When something happens, there should be some reason, caused by Dharma. So, in this sense, it may be close to Dharma Nature. But we can understand in some way; we can figure out some rules. So those rules, or truth, is sometimes in Buddhism called Dharma itself. So, that is why we call it Dharma Body. It is the source of all truth.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1026" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7EmMpeQJtLdmmpeCzwegPD9JebVuaLWfavOntyyH2BDczmPtO_0aBFK6G1b-5jPWe5A9FQN4ZFtj1jcFIWJOL8AxVuxNVAAUke1yRds74yMoA89juA9VI-IBifQE57Ia0eqRN4SgJ3XSMD1cLiFq-b18xkAMz_QAwlyqiLzfNOENzwNCfmUy_RwBDe-M/w334-h400/SRC0161-P.jpg" width="334" /></a></div>
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Apple picking with Suzuki - Tassajara, Summer 1968<br />
Photo by Brigid Meier
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If I talk about something, that is already Dharma Nature. How dharma goes, what it is like. Objectively speaking, that is form. More subjectively speaking, it is its nature. But what is the source of nature? No one knows [laughs]. We know it, but we cannot say anything about it. If you say something, it is not body. It is nature. Or it is an attribute of the body. So, we do not talk about what Dharma Body is. But we understand that there must be some source.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1025" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="450" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5zi5fwKTXKgyfSbkf6vUhHldOkSr2ckS2q02cHuz0PwdtQa4UF4y3He1PjjXTrINa7NFHNE94FPas4nR8LM5TAKgEI3u9Q6hWzt_r1vHFR-YZKFGO3QJmItZPVDwtvkCUq4dC1KkJDFEanImTN3d1SB7eSZpFJRmrgj2vhrqluJyzleHH86Rk1cVToU/w400-h326/caves-rogers-hands-P.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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Stylized images of hands on the walls of The Caves rockshelter.<br />
Photo by L. S. Sleven; courtesy of the Monterey County Public Library.
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The Lotus Sutra especially puts emphasis on Dharma Nature instead of on the Dharma Body because the Dharma Body is inexplicable. You cannot talk about the Dharma Body because it is something beyond our world, beyond our wisdom, beyond our understanding. That is why we say the Dharma Body—body does not talk. My mouth talks, but my body doesn’t talk.
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Painting by Michael Sawyer
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The Lotus Sutra is the sutra which describes this kind of reality, the world of <i>tathata </i>[thusness, suchness]. That is why it is told on a big, cosmic scale. We say in Japanese <i>jisso</i>, the way everything exists in the realm of reality or the realm of <i>tathata</i>. In this sutra, everything presumes this world of <i>tathata</i>. Of course, it is described in a very dramatic way, but what it means to show is how things exist in this world, in this dharma world or world of <i>tathata</i>. The purpose of this sutra is to give a dramatic version of <i>tathata</i>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1023" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="1000" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirobrwgiizfoMouY6IhPq-q8DVJ_pnjJHHFEo-Tjm3X7jH72m3C8Uum8uBZKJmkp8ZWwmAd0L2f8xro0k4vr_oAoIzIcmynE4XEejtL65IGd2CRGN_NhEA1dP7IdV0ZdYSq1gz8uyFeWv4PfMEtYUHJpeVrx8_ERcXrdwQEZ_531y9rBXpHGR4vnaZ364/w400-h268/gds-photos-309-1000-tree-P.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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Photo by Gene DeSmidt
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We say, “Just sit” [laughs]. What does it mean, “Just sit?” When we say, “just sit,” it includes actually all the potential activity which we have. We remain in an inactive state, but we have potential. So, in this sense, our practice includes everything. But actually, when we sit, we are just sitting. And so each one of us is Dharmakaya Buddha. But we have potentiality. Or actually, within ourselves, even though we are sitting and breathing, our heart is acting, so we are also Sambhogakaya Buddha. We understand reality in this way.</p>
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The Dharmakaya Buddha is called the fundamental, undeveloped Buddhakaya. In Buddhism, when we say the undeveloped, or fundamental, body, it means that it is the original source itself. But there are two interpretations for one reality. When we understand it as something which is very calm, which is not in activity, we call it the Dharma Body. But the Dharma Body does not actually remain calm and inactive—it is always active. When we understand it as activity, we call it Dharma Nature. “Dharma Nature” means something in action, and “Dharma Body” means something which is not in activity, or which is not developed. But the whole Nature exists in the Dharma Body as a potentiality. So we have two understandings of one reality: Dharmakaya [kaya = body] and dharma nature.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1021" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="350" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitgta9w5Iw827zsbv02O1i7rl7v-5yXPdB-FxBHdYG6gtxXUrAlkWM1jEzLPz6JpAhuFoGaIpyh6d3kMorRlRWtjmGBIjSUdLk8Y8-Ml3cdSlQKmgWGAaQ9k9IZ6UqycJXSHC55oiWrBtOoy0TESNkvrWJTQBIuS9xSPWjaShujcsWVz2AREH9cRcj9DM/s320/SRC0141-P.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<p style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: medium;">John Steiner came to the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 and participated in the first practice period at Tassajara. His involvement with peace and environmental work began before then and continues to this day as does his spiritual path. Listen to his podcasts and read about him at <a href="http://cuke.com/f" target="_blank"><b>http://cuke.com/f</b></a>.</p>Peter Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367965385831411279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7643637124291581868.post-81562211300125059152024-02-24T11:23:00.001-05:002024-02-24T11:23:14.473-05:00Nirmanakaya Buddha<p style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: medium;">
The Nirmanakaya Buddha comes into this world with the vow that he will save all sentient beings. Not by karma, but by vow, he appears in this world, practices the Bodhisattva’s way, attains enlightenment as Buddha did, and saves all human beings. So, he is called an incarnated body. He changes his form in various ways, sometimes to a bodhisattva, sometimes to a buddha. He takes on various forms to help people, so in the widest sense of the word, everything is Nirmanakaya Buddha. But in the narrow sense, those who appear in this world by vow instead of by karma are called Nirmanakaya Buddhas.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shunryusuzuki2.com/IG.asp?N=1019" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="581" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicCdkVHEqWwy_aHi6xFjg22SbD2HqSqMSJHU8Jr3esLoSYdW2bRD-bEHR3eUwBVgoIrs8FVL-F3dJEFktLYfsLs9PgpnVIjzmnn1Ec4eCBJIaBV8U_AI9FxabC1kM5XuzK_1KnHTCitRvFMXpmFumFR9Cej3-1phrIhWts0WyvWjMgvu2zeI8aTcsYu7s/w286-h400/69-03-04-p1-buddhas-P.jpg" width="286" /></a></div>
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