Tiantong on Flickr.
Raining, Tiantongsi.
TIantongsi is the Chinese temple where Dogen, founder of Soto Zen school in Japan, studied.
“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever.”
Genjo Koan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogen
from biography of Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon papers that changed public opinion on the Vietnam War.
Though they talked about many things during their first meeting, perhaps what most impressed Ellsberg was that in Snyder he saw someone who “was in charge of his own life … a model of the way a life could be lived.”
