Essays and Thoughts on The Dokkodo Part Twelve In All Things, Have No Preferences Picture of the 3rd Patriarch of Zen, Seng T'san, whose famous work, Hsin Hsin Ming ("Inscription of Faith in Mind," S hinjinmei in Japanese), is strikingly similar to some of the musings of the Dokkodo . Musashi was clearly influenced by Seng T'san's work, wittingly or not. ( Picture is in the Public Domain ) Here, at the midpoint of the work, Musashi seems to return to a musing that is very close to his first one, to accept everything as it is . In order to accept life and reality as it truly is, you must also "have no preferences." I believe Musashi did this in order for the reader (which would have been Terao Maganojo at first, but Musashi knew it would be passed on to students under Maganojo, and to future generations), to stay focused on the overall meaning of the text, and of following the Way in general. Although the samurais at Musashi's time - and throug...
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