Some time ago, there was a thread (viewtopic.php?f=1&t=837&p=11939) about someone who had asked Nishijima about mindfulness on his blog, and Nishijima had replied in a manner that was, well, surprising. It suggested that perhaps his understand of the term mindfulness was different from ours.

In a recent post, he mentioned "the philosophy of Action", and I have been trying to figure out what he means. I found this document:

http://www.dogensangha.org.uk/IBPZ/IBPZ-English.pdf

which discusses this somewhat. It says:

"Action in the moment of the present is utterly free. This is the philosophy of action, the philosophy of the present moment."

Is this "Action" what we understand as mindfulness?

Kirk