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Tuttle Company, Inc. of Rutland, Vermont, and Tokyo, Japan with editorial offices at 153 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109. Copyright © 1996 Dharma Communications Cover photos and all interior photos by John Daido Loori, copyright © 1996. Portions of this work have been previously published in the quarterly journal Mountain Record. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Loori, John Daido. The heart of being : moral and ethical teachings of Zen Buddhism / John Daido Loori ; edited by Bonnie Myotai Treace and Konrad Ryushin Marchaj. p. cm. ISBN 0-8048-3078-9 1. Religious lifeZen Buddhism. 2. Buddhist precepts. 3. Zen BuddhismDiscipline. 4. Buddhist ethics. I. Treace, Bonnie Myotai. II. Marchaj, Konrad Ryushin. III. Title. BQ9286.L66 1996 294.3'5dc20 96-25175 CIP First edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 Cover design by Frances Kay Printed in the United States of America < previous page page_iv next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...My%20Documents/eBook%20html/Loori,%20John%20Daido%20-%20Heart%20of%20Being/files/page_iv.html[27.08.2009 12:44:44] page_v < previous page page_v next page > Page v Nine Bows in deep gratitude to my late teacher Master Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi for revealing to me the Heart of Being < previous page page_v next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/.../My%20Documents/eBook%20html/Loori,%20John%20Daido%20-%20Heart%20of%20Being/files/page_v.html[27.08.2009 12:44:44] page_vii < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii CONTENTS Foreword by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi ix Preface by Bonnie Myotai Treace xiv Acknowledgments xvii Part I Jukai: The Ceremony of Precepts 1 Introduction Right Action: Giving Life to the Buddha 2 Chapter 1 Sacred Space: The Heart of Being 11 Chapter 2 Kyojukaimon: Commentary on Master Dogen's Teachings on the Precepts 18 Chapter 3 Invocation: Practicing Buddha 27 Chapter 4 Atonement: Taking Responsibility 35 Chapter 5 Taking Refuge in the Three Treasures: Waking Up 42 Chapter 6 The First Pure Precept: Not Creating Evil 50 Chapter 7 The Second Pure Precept: Practicing Good 63 Chapter 8 The Third Pure Precept: Actualizing Good for Others 75 Chapter 9 The Ten Grave Precepts: Wisdom Mind 82 < previous page page_vii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...My%20Documents/eBook%20html/Loori,%20John%20Daido%20-%20Heart%20of%20Being/files/page_vii.html[27.08.2009 12:44:44] page_viii < previous page page_viii next page > Page viii Chapter 10 The Precepts and the Environment: Teachings of Mountains and Rivers 108 Chapter 11 Verse of the Kesa: The Robe of Liberation 117 Chapter 12 Lineage of the Ancestors: Endless Circle 124 Chapter 13 Dharma Name: Spiritual Identity 128 Chapter 14 The Four Great Bodhisattva Vows: Meticulous Effort 132 Chapter 15 Jukai: Opening Our Eyes 166 Part II Koans on Moral and Ethical Teachings 169 Chapter 16 Sexuality: Practicing the Red Thread 170 Chapter 17 Self-Styled Zen: T'ou-tzu's All Sounds 183 Chapter 18 Cause and Effect: Pai-chang and the Fox 193 Chapter 19 Giving: Chin-niu's Thanksgiving 213 Part III Questions and Answers 227 Chapter 20 Questions and Answers: From an Evening at the Monastery 228 Glossary 251 < previous page page_viii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...y%20Documents/eBook%20html/Loori,%20John%20Daido%20-%20Heart%20of%20Being/files/page_viii.html[27.08.2009 12:44:45] page_ix < previous page page_ix next page > Page ix FOREWORD Jukai: Receiving the Precepts Author's Note: I originally hoped that my teacher, Maezumi Roshi, would write the foreword to this book. With his untimely death in May 1995, that became impossible. Still, I wanted to share some of his words. This teaching on the precepts was given by Roshi in the early 1980s. It is as alive now as it was then, and it provides and excellent entry point to this book. Jukai literally means "to receive the kai, receive the precepts," but in a deeper sense ju is a synonym for kaku, "to realize." Buddha himself is called kakusha, "the realized or enlightened person," and kai does not merely mean "precept" as such; kai is a synonym of Buddha-nature. In other words, jukai means ''to realize the Buddha-nature." Another definition of jukai that I quote when we perform the jukai ceremony is "to truly realize what < previous page page_ix next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...My%20Documents/eBook%20html/Loori,%20John%20Daido%20-%20Heart%20of%20Being/files/page_ix.html[27.08.2009 12:44:46] page_x < previous page page_x next page > Page x transmission means." In a sense, there is nothing to be transmitted; you have to realize your true self or Buddha-nature by yourself. The same thing is true of jukai: to truly receive the precepts is in itself to realize your true nature. At the end of the jukai ceremony, I ask you three times, "Will you maintain the precepts well: Will you maintain them well? Will you really maintain them well?" And you answer, "Yes . yes . yes." We repeat it three times to make it really certain. At that moment, you are what we call kai tai, "the body of the kai." Buddha-nature is revealed in you. At the beginning of the ceremony we repeat the verse of sange, "repentance" or "atonement.'' But that repentance is not merely to repent for our wrongdoings. It is not that limited. We explain sange in three ways, which correspond to the three fundamental aspects of the Buddha Way: samadhi, precepts, and wisdom. The first aspect we call shuso sange: to penetrate deep into samadhi and see the Buddha; to realize who Buddha is. The next is called saho sange, which is closer to the usual understanding of repentance. We repent for whatever we did that was inadequate or wrong, and we cleanse ourselvesour body, mouth, and mind. And the third aspect is called musho sange. Musho literally means "no nature," which is a synonym of true nature, of Buddha-nature. To realize the Buddha-nature that transcends the dichotomies of good and bad, right and wrong, is repentance. Shuso sange corresponds to samadhi. To really penetrate into samadhi and meet the Buddha, to see our true nature, is atonement. Saho sange corresponds to maintaining the precepts the best way that we can. Of course, the question What are the precepts? is a big matter in < previous page page_x next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/.../My%20Documents/eBook%20html/Loori,%20John%20Daido%20-%20Heart%20of%20Being/files/page_x.html[27.08.2009 12:44:46] page_xi < previous page page_xi next page > Page xi itself. Lastly, musho sange is equivalent to wisdom. It is to reveal the wisdom through which we see the true nature of ourselves that transcends good and bad, right and wrong. In a sense, we can say that our atonement itself is the Buddha Treasure. Usually, we think that the Buddha was a prince who lived in India twenty-five hundred years ago, left his castle and family at the age of twenty-nine, and after six years of hard practice attained enlightenment. Of course, that is Buddha, too. But what Shakyamuni realizedthe very nature of ourselves that is no-nature, the wisdom that we call anuttara- samyaksambodhi, the supreme, unsurpassable Way, the very best wisdomwe also call the Buddha Treasure of One Body. Of the Dharma Treasure of One Body, we say it is "pure and genuine, apart from defilements." The Dharma Treasure is also no-naturethat is why it is genuine. And because of that very no-nature, things appear to be as they are, not only ourselves, but all phenomenal existence. Everything is the result of causation, and causation in its very nature is no-nature. This no-nature is Buddha-naturesupreme wisdom, supreme Way, supreme enlightened state that is the Buddha Treasure. As we are, each one of us is distinctly differentthat is the Dharma Treasure. All taken together as one is the Buddha Treasure. And the plain fact that these two are inseparable is called the Sangha Treasure. In other words, each one of us manifests as the Three Treasures. The Three Treasurers are nothing but each one of us, the phenomenal world. To realize this is the true meaning of jukai. We also have what we call the realized Three Treasures. The historical Buddha Shakyamuni who realized enlightenment is the realized Buddha Treasure.