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Zen Master Dogen

Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師; 26 January 1200 – 22 September 1253), was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. He is also known as Dōgen Kigen (道元希玄), Eihei Dōgen (永平道元), Kōso Jōyō Daishi (高祖承陽大師), and Busshō Dentō Kokushi (仏性伝東国師).

Originally ordained as a monk in the Tendai School in Kyoto, he was ultimately dissatisfied with its teaching and traveled to China to seek out what he believed to be a more authentic Buddhism. He remained there for four years, finally training under Tiāntóng Rújìng, an eminent teacher of the Cáodòng lineage of Chinese Chan. Upon his return to Japan, he began promoting the practice of zazen (sitting meditation) through literary works such as Fukanzazengi and Bendōwa.

He eventually broke relations completely with the powerful Tendai School, and, after several years of likely friction between himself and the establishment, left Kyoto for the mountainous countryside where he founded the monastery Eihei-ji, which remains the head temple of the Sōtō school today.

Dōgen is known for his extensive writings like the Shōbōgenzō (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye, considered his magnum opus), the Eihei Kōroku (Extensive Record, a collection of his talks), the Eihei Shingi (the first Japanese Zen monastic code), along with his Japanese poetry, and commentaries. Dōgen's writings are one of the most important sources studied in the contemporary Sōtō Zen tradition.

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Dharmakaya Practice and Spiritual Bypass

Serial: TL-00778

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Dogen, Koun Ejô, Samadhi, Soto Zen
Jan 07 2024
Hybrid

Excerpts from Dogen’s Extensive Record

Serial: TL-00814

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Dogen, Extensive Record, Consciousness, realization, Birth-and-Death
Oct 22 2023
Hybrid

Online Seminar: Dogen’s Extensive Record, Eihei Koroku

Serial: TL-00813

ADZG Saturday Seminar,
Online Seminar

Dogen, Extensive Record, Dharmakaya, Buddha Nature, Lotus Sutra, Soto Zen
Oct 21 2023
Zoom

Dogen’s Extensive Record - Radiance, Intimacy, and respecting Causality

Serial: TL-00812

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Dogen, Extensive Record, Anger, Birth-and-Death, Monkey Mind
Oct 01 2023
Hybrid

Objectless Meditation and Serene Illumination

Serial: TL-00809

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Dogen, Zazen, Samadhi, Silence, Subject-and-Object
Sep 04 2023
Hybrid

Core Soto Zen

Serial: TL-00807

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Dogen, Bendowa, Zazen, Samadhi, Repentance, American
Aug 14 2023
Hybrid

Buddha Work and the Ancestors: Teachings of Hongzhi

Serial: TL-00805

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Hongzhi, Dogen, Bendowa, American, Lineage, Birth-and-Death
Jul 31 2023
Hybrid

Bodhisattvas’ Four Integrative Dharmas

Serial: TL-00797

ADZG Sesshin Day 3,
Dharma Talk

Vimalakirti Sutra, Sesshin, Shobogenzo, Dogen, Generosity, Patience, Freedom,...
May 21 2023
Hybrid

The Buddha Way is a Conversation.

 Dogenzenji's vow and the practice confession and repentance.  Confession and repentenance includes both social and solitary aspects of practice. "The Snowman" poem by...

Dogen, Confession-and-Repentance, Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon, Evil, Repentance,...
Sep 03 2022
Zoom

Zen Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

Lovingkindness, Mahayana, Dogen
Jan 2022

Wholehearted Zen: Ethics in Practice

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Dogen
Jan 2022

Denko Roku 1: Shakyamuni

Serial: BZ-02662

Study Sesshin Day 1

 

true dharma, Transmission, Liberation, Nirvana, Dogen, Soto Zen, Chanting, Buddha...
Feb 16 2019

January 2019 talk, Serial No. 04461

Intimacy, Zendo, Dogen
Jan 2019

Suzuki Roshi Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha

Serial: BZ-02621

Sesshin Day 5

 

Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Emotions, Intimacy, Attachment, Dogen, Bell,...
Jun 17 2018

Save the World Save Yourself

Serial: BZ-02586

Day 5

 

Impermanence, Berkeley Zen Center, Harmonizing, Composure, Rinzai, Priest, Mandala,...
Dec 07 2017

The State of the Dysfunction

War, Composure, Separation, Non-attachment, Oneness, Attachment, Religion, Peace,...
Mar 12 2016

Giving Birth and the Two Truths

Practice, Letting Go, Dogen
May 31 2014
ADZG Temple

Brain Washing 1,7,3,5

Serial: BZ-02339

Rohatsu

Dogen, Tenzo Kyokun, Anger, Birth-and-Death, Emotions, Daily Life, Hate, Dragons,...
Dec 03 2013
Berkeley Zen Center

What is the Basis of our Activity

Serial: BZ-02300

Why Do We Chant?, Saturday Lecture

Chanting, Suzuki Roshi, Dogen, Sixth Patriarch, training, Lay Practice, Priest,...
Mar 30 2013
Berkeley Zen Center

A Special Transmission Outside the Scriptures

A Special Transmission Outside the Scriptures
Tenshin Reb Anderson
No Abode 2013-02-02 AM

Buddha Mind, Transmission, Samadhi, Bodhisattva Vow, Dogen
Feb 02 2013
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

Genjo Koan - Section 10B-Part-1

Serial: BZ-02248

Firewood and Ash, Sesshin Day 3

Birth-and-Death, Impermanence, Dogen, Birth-and-Death, Three Treasures, Six Realms,...
Jun 22 2012
Berkeley Zen Center

Nishiari Commentary on Genjo Koan

Serial: BZ-02233

Three Commentaries on Genjo Koan, new book,

Meaning of term Koan

Saturday Lecture

Genjokoan, Nishiari Bokusan, Kosho Uchiyama, Subject-and-Object, Birth-and-Death,...
Mar 03 2012
Berkeley Zen Center

Money is Pure

Serial: BZ-02231

Money and Labor Talk by Suzuki Roshi, Sesshin Day 2

Dogen, Cooking, Dana Paramita, Fox, Culture, Evil, Building, First Principle, Buddha...
Feb 19 2012
Part 1 of 2
Berkeley Zen Center

August 27th, 2011, Serial No. 03876

Precepts, Dogen, Complete Perfect Enlightenment
Aug 27 2011

August 22nd, 2011, Serial No. 03871

Zazen, Dogen, Ceremony
Aug 22 2011

Embracing the Mahayana: Do You Want to be an Artist? 

Breath, Dogen, Community, Lineage, Evil
Jul 16 2011
Afternoon
No Abode Hermitage

Serial No. 02191

Lotus Sutra, Suzuki Roshi, Dogen
Jul 02 2011

Dharma Transmission

Serial: BZ-02188

Teacher/Disciple Relationship, Sesshin Day 4

Lineage, Transmission, Dogen, Transmission, Branching Streams, Buddha Ancestors,...
Jun 18 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

January 25th, 2011, Serial No. 03826

Zazen, Karmic Consciousness, Dogen
Jan 25 2011

Komyo - Master Hongzhi

Serial: BZ-02147

Light, Rohatsu Day 5

Koun Ejô, Sandokai, Transmission of Light, Komyozo Zammai, Discrimination, Silent...
Dec 09 2010
Berkeley Zen Center

Paying Respect to the Great Teacher 

Dragons, Transmission, true dharma, Dogen, Perfect Wisdom
Nov 06 2010
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

October 27th, 2010, Serial No. 03783

Offering, Ceremony, Dogen
Oct 27 2010

The Mind of Enlightenment 

Silence, Lotus Sutra, Dogen, Bodhidharma
Aug 19 2010
The Yoga Room

The Bodhisattvas' Four Embracing Dharmas

Lotus Sutra, Dogen, Suzuki Roshi
Jul 02 2010

Eight Awakenings of Great Beings, serial no. 02101

Serial: BZ-02101

Lecture

Desire, Mindfulness, Dogen
May 22 2010

Zazen

Serial: BZ-02068

Seven Factors of Awakening, Rohatsu Day 1

Practice Enlightenment, Mindfulness, Effort, Dogen, Concentration, Equanimity,...
Dec 06 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

For a Sentient Being to be a Sentient Being is just not to Move 

Silence, Manjushri, Dogen, Impermanence, Karmic Consciousness
Nov 14 2009
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

August 18th, 2009, Serial No. 03671

Faith, Lotus Sutra, Dogen
Aug 18 2009

Causation and Non-Self 

Attachment, Evil, Dogen, Emptiness
Mar 26 2009
The Yoga Room

January 17th, 2009, Serial No. 03627

Dogen
Jan 17 2009

The Practice That Fills and Is Filled by the Entire Universe and the Bodhisattva Precept of Not Killing 

Lotus Sutra, Buddha Ancestors, Soto Zen, Dogen, Buddha Mind
Nov 22 2008
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

Just This - Dogen's Fukanzazengi: Have Know Kidzendo

Serial: BZ-01161C

Saturday Lecture

Fukanzazengi, Dogen, Duality, Dragons, Posture, Non-duality, Instruction, Buddha...
Sep 27 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

About the Lotus Sutra 

Lotus Sutra, true dharma, Bell, Bodhisattva Vow, Dogen
Apr 19 2008
No Abode Hermitage

February 14th, 2008, Serial No. 03535

Buddha, Practice, Dogen
Feb 14 2008

January 17th, 2008, Serial No. 03517

Sangha, Dogen, Offering
Jan 17 2008

December 5th, 2007, Serial No. 03504

Lotus Sutra, Offering, Dogen
Dec 05 2007

Three Bodies of Buddha

Serial: BZ-01098

Saturday Lecture

Trikaya, Buddha Mind, Buddha Nature, Dogen, Manjushri, Continuous Practice, Dragons,...
Dec 01 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

September 8th, 2007, Serial No. 00998, Side B

Teacher-and-Student, Transmission, Lineage, Buddha Ancestors, Bodhidharma, true...
Sep 08 2007

BCR: Case #74: "Kingyu Osho-Rice Pot" (Dear Bodhisattvas)

Serial: BZ-00988

BCR: Case #93: "Taiko's 'You For Devil'", Saturday Lecture

BCR-74, Buddha Mind, Gratitude, Fox, Monastic Practice, Dogen, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Aug 04 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Worship of the Buddha

When a person pays homage and bows to the Buddhas, there is just one Buddha with no other person.

Lotus Sutra, Bowing, Duality, Dogen, War
Jul 28 2007
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

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