File Name: 66-01-06
Thursday, January 6, 1966
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, p. 118
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from Los Altos, Los Altos box title: The Double Moon
Already we feel night become shorter and shorter when I come here. Dogen Zenji says, “Even though it is midnight dawn is here. Even though dawn comes it is night-time.” This kind of statement, or understanding is our understanding transmitted from Buddha to patriarchs, and from patriarchs to Dogen and to us. We call night-time day-time; day-time night-time. Night-time and day-time is not different. We just call same thing sometimes night-time and sometimes day-time. Night-time and day-time is ... Read Transcript (this version is updated and corrected at times. Any other transcripts below are not).