No Obstacle

 

 

In an essay entitled “Birth and Death,” he [Dogen] writes: “When you simply release and forget both your body and your mind and throw yourself into the house of Buddha, and when functioning comes from the direction of the Buddha and you go in accord with it, then with no strength needed and no thought expended, freed from birth and death, you become Buddha. Then there can be no obstacle in any man’s mind.” — River of Fire, River of Water: An Introduction to the Pure Land Tradition of Shin Buddhism by Taitetsu Unno

 

 

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