Category: Outline of Practice
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Entering by Practice: Part Four
This is our last post on the text of this essay itself. Following this post, I will do one more, where I will try to give something of a “dharma talk” on this essay. I don’t know how long it will be, but I will try to write down my…
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Entering by Practice: Part Three
In this post we’re continuing to read Outline of Practice. We’ll follow the same format as before, discussing the difference between Red Pine’s translation of the text and my own amateur one, from the original Chinese included. Stuff in my translation that is arguably missing from Red Pine is in…
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Entering By Practice: Part Two
In this post we’re continuing to read Outline of Practice. We’ll follow the same format as before, discussing the difference between Red Pine’s translation of the text and my own amateur one, from the original Chinese included. Stuff in my translation that is arguably missing from Red Pine is in…
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Entering By Practice: Part One
In this post we’re continuing to read Outline of Practice. We’ll follow the same format as before, discussing the difference between Red Pine’s translation of the text and my own amateur one, from the original Chinese included. Stuff in my translation that is arguably missing from Red Pine is in…
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Entering by Reason
This post kicks off our discussion of the Zen record. The first text we’ll be looking at is Bodhidharma’s Two Entrances and Four Practices, also known as Outline of Practice. The format of these posts will all be the same. I’ll post the original Chinese, my translation, and a translation…