45/108 Gates of Dharma Illumination

[Shokai]

The Forty-fifth Gate

Knowledge of names and forms is a gate of Dharma illumination;
for it clears away many obstacles.

Names / Form:
a word or a combination of words by which any object of thought is designated / the shape of a thing or person

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gassho, Shokai
stlah

[Seikan]

The Dharma may ultimately be beyond name and form, but to navigate the relative world, we still need them to point the way. Well, at least I do... :D

A map without forms
Is merely
A piece of paper

Gassho,
Seikan

-stlah-

[Nengei]

Names and forms are the theory of our school,
The rules and the structure;
Whilst zazen is the practice.
These are the two arms of discipline.

Gassho,
Nengei
Sat today. LAH.