2. Ibid.
3. Daily Sutras (New York: Zen Studies Society,
1967), p. 43. "Mu" here refers to the realization of
emptiness.
4. Nishiyama and Stevens, p. 149.
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5. For a full account of Dogen's views on karman
and morality, see Hee-Jin Kim, Dogen Kigen: Mystical
Realist (Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona
Press. 1975), especially pp. 281-282.
6. Reification and hypostatization are the
conceptual maneuvers which result in our mistaken
belief in the ownbeing or self-nature of dharmas.
7. Nishiyama and Stevens, p. 142.
8. "Problems in the Concept of Karma," presented
in October, 1977 at a conference at SUNY Buffalo,
one of whose panels was devoted to the concept of
karman.
9. Yadav, p. 11.
10. Ibid., p. 15.
11. Emphasis on this theme is particularly
characteristic of Yoka Daishi's "Song of
Enlightenment."
12. See Namu Dai Bosa: A Transmission of Zen
Buddhism to America, ed. Louis Nordstrom (New York:
Theatre Arts Books, 1976), section 2.
13. In order that the reader can refer to it in
the course of reading this essay I will state the
koan in full. See Zenkei Shibayama Roshi, Zen
Comments on the Mumonkan (New York: New American
Library, 1974), pp. 33-34.
Whenever Master Hyakujo gave teisho on Zen, an old
man sat with the monks to listen and always withdrew
when they did. One day, however, he remained behind,
and the master asked, "Who are you standing here
before me?" The old man replied, "I am not a human
being. In the past, in the time of the Kasho Buddha,
I was the head of a monastery. Once a monk asked me,
'Does an enlightened man also fall into causation or
not?' I replied, 'He does not.' Because of this
answer, I was made to live as a fox for five hundred
lives. Now I beg you, please say the turning words
on my behalf and release me from the fox body." The
old man then asked Hyakujo, "Does an enlightened man
also fall into causation or not?"
The Master said, "He does not ignore causation."
Hearing this the old man was at once enlightened.