Dōgen

1200 CE – 1253 CElived

Kyoto, Kamakura Japan

• Buddhism
• Chan / Zen

Asked why practice is needed if everyone is already enlightened, and answered that sitting is not a means to awakening but its enactment. Wrote some of the hardest prose in Japanese.

Known for

• practice-realisation
• being-time
• dropping off body and mind

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