Das Buch Genjokoan. Aus dem Shobogenzo des Zen-Meisters Dogen

Loving-kindness brings loving-kindness: The impact of Buddhism on cognitive self–other integration

“…On the other hand, however, exactly the same method was applied in both groups and cannot, therefore, account for the obtained group effects on the SSE. Hence, taken together, the pattern of our findings is more likely to reflect the possibility that practicing Buddhism enhances self-other integration (Dogen, 1976), rather than merely reduced attentional control.…”

“…Zen Master Dogen (1976) said: "To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things, to be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between oneself and others". The concept of anatta is a core Buddhist teaching that denies the existence of a separate self: According to this doctrine, there is no "self" in the sense of a permanent, integral, autonomous being within an individual existence.…”

Philosophy, writing, and liberation

“…To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between oneself and others” (Eihei Dogen 2019).…”

“…Neither divinely triumphant like Nietzsche's Dionysian possession nor deadly violent like Bataille's eroticism, my work with the Man in Gold has taught me the liberational dimension of possession by transcending the limits of my previous ways of thinking and doing philosophy, while also radically revising my sense of self toward greater freedom and openness. With respect to theory, it transformed my philosophical views on aesthetic experience, photography, and performance, while pushing me further toward nondualist thinking by brashly putting in question the presumably clear borders between art and life, between artist and layman, between rational performer and lunatic (Shusterman 2012;2016;2019). The Man in Gold inhabits an experiential space that those binaries share, in which they overlap and merge, despite their allegedly strict division.…”