Dao · The Way

Practice-Realization

Shōbōgenzō

Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo. Edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi.

To study the self is to forget the self.

— Dōgen, Genjōkōan

Why it belongs

Dōgen makes practice itself the teaching. The Way is not a doctrine to hold but a manner of sitting, walking, working, and seeing—realization inseparable from the act.

Echoes across the paths

The same structure, carried in other images—one tradition's metaphor mapping onto another's.