The Dark Side of the Mirror: Forgetting the Self in Dogen's Genjo Koan

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Berserk Button: Don't demean someone's Cutie Mark or Special Talent around Starlight Glimmer, as in an inversion of her prime self's mentality, she believes Heart Is an Awesome Power in all cases. Yes. I am part of the group of editors currently producing the Oxford University Press Handbook of Meditation. I have a volume of my own teachings close to completion for which the tentative title is In Less Than a Day. Both of these should come out before the end of 2019. I am also working on a translation and commentary on the Taoist classic, the Tao Te Ching, hopefully for 2020, and I have some material prepared towards two other future books, one on Buddhist psychology and one on Pure LandBuddhism.

Tomboy and Girly Girl: Mirror Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle have this dynamic like their main verse counterparts, just inverted. Scootaloo is also the Girly Girl to Apple Bloom's Tomboy.

Remember there is always a person behind the post or comment you’re objecting to. They may just be having a bad day… If you’re upset, perhaps let a little time pass before responding to them or us. For Want Of A Nail: The nail between Prime Chrysalis and Mirror Chrysalis is actually shown: both were identical when born and had two mutually exclusive instincts. Prime Chrysalis chose the 'survival of the fittest' instinct while Mirror Chrysalis chose to embrace her material instincts. I expect different people might get very different things. Somewhere hidden in Dōgen’s lines is the secret of complete enlightenment! Then, I hope that the reader will realise that Dōgen was not a narrow sectarian; I hope she will gain some empathy for his human life and a feeling for the times in which he lived; I hope she will be enriched by Dōgen’s metaphors, analogies, poetic language and spiritual insight; I hope she will, at least in some degree, change her view of Buddhism; and, above all, of course, I hope that she will now begin to truly understand Genjō Kōan and put it intopractice. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing respected Buddhist teacher and author, David Brazier, about his upcoming book, The Dark Side of the Mirror: forgetting the self in Dōgen’s Genjō Kōan, due for release on 19 March2019.

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