Jikini senmu ichikaku o e kitaru
by Sharon Mau
Title
Jikini senmu ichikaku o e kitaru
Artist
Sharon Mau
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Jikini means directly.
Sen means thousands.
Mu means dreams.
Ichi means one.
One here suggests the One, total, whole.
Kaku means awakening, realization.
So ichi kaku means totally awakening, whole awakening. But it is not satori, something special, it is just to be at the present moment, which is a normal awakening, an instantaneous awakening, an awakening of each moment, an awakening at every moment.
O is Japanese word for object.
E means to get.
Kitaru means has come, suggest present perfect.
Jikini senmu ichikaku o e kitaru translates to -
Directly, I have got thousand of dreams and one reality -
which suggests something as "Relying on practice, we can get miscellaneous kinds of dreams and one truth". That suggests that in zazen, even though we have many thoughts or dreams, we still are sitting in the truth, in reality - from The poem "21" from book 10 in Eihei Koroku was first written by Master Dogen - Eihei Dogen (1200-1253)
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August 27th, 2011
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