The Middle Way: Homage to Gudo Nishijima

Monday, January 23, 2006

Homage to Gudo Nishijima

Without FM Alexander's teaching I would never have understood the real meaning of Master Dogen's words "Just wake up."
Without Gudo Wafu Nishijima's teaching I would never even have heard of those words.
Homage to Gudo Wafu Nishijima. That stubborn, opinionated, irrepressible old man.
I hate him deeply. I prostrate myself to him wholeheartedly.

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: Name: Mike Cross; Location: Aylesbury, Bucks, United Kingdom

From 1982 to 1997 I worked on the translation of Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, and understood the primary importance in the Buddha's teaching of full lotus sitting. Until 1994 my attitude to this sitting practice could be summed up in the words: "Don't think. Just do it!" Then in 1994 I returned from Japan to England to train to be a teacher of the FM Alexander Technique, and experiences with Alexander work woke me up to the opposite standpoint of "Don't just do. Think it!" Far from smoothing my path, however, Alexander insights (or reactions to them) caused a lot of trouble between me and my aging teacher in Japan. Then in 2008, seeking clearer water further upstream, I found a new lease of life in the extant Sanskrit works of the 12th ancestor in Dogen's lineage -- the great Indian teacher Ashvaghosha.

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Homage to Gudo Nishijima

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