Dogen on thoughts about enlightenment
This talk was given at the Festival of the Buddha's Enlightenment at Turning Wheel Buddhist Temple in December 2015.
Following on from the first half of the Dharma talk after the festival, on Letting go of ideas about enlightenment, this is a short talk about a section of the chapter Yuibutsu Yobutsu (Only a Buddha together with a Buddha) from Dogen's Shobogenzo. In this he says that "What you think one way or another before realisation is not a help for realisation."
Duration: 10:45.
The translation quoted is from:
Dōgen, and Kazuaki Tanahashi. Moon in a Dewdrop. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985.
The story of the wrestler is discussed in the first half of the talk.