DreamMaking

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Dogen writes: 

"If you fall because of the ground,

you rise always because of the sky,

and it is altogether impossible to rise

apart from the sky.

If you fall because of the sky,

you rise always because of the ground,

and it is altogether impossible to rise

apart from the ground."

Since there is no way out of the dream,

the only way to live authentically is within a dream,

to go beyond a dream by way of

expounding/making a dream.

"The path of progress in realization"

consists not in supplanting dream

so much as clarifying, penetrating, and 

surpassing it in and through itself.

"Seeing things as they are" is "liberation" (todatsu)—

"penetrating and casting off the whole body" and

"the whole being penetrated and cast off.

Every  practitioner's task is to make or change things

by seeing through their "undefiledness" (fuzenna).

This the kernel of negotiating the Way.

—From Meditation and Thinking by Hee-Jin Kim,