Practice is for removing defilements
In light of a Buddhist canon, Zen master Dogen's idea that practice as good as note have been a single is usually as paradoxical as a Tendai hongaku doctrine of original note that led to a mistaken idea that zero further is required of a skilful to undiluted original note that is lonesome over with defilements. Somehow, a defilements usually disappear, or it doesn't matter! It roughly goes without saying that this perspective opens a door to all kinds of trouble-maker conduct.
Dogen no disbelief was good aware of a flaw in hongaku that it fundamentally led to immoralityafter all his eremite roots were no reduction than Tendai. Dogen's solution was to have practice as good as note one. In alternative words, if you did not do meditation, comply friar rituals as good as a precepts, how could you be cordial given note as good as such practices have been a same? We might even go so far as to contend a moral hold up as good as note have been exactly a same. If you live like a Buddha, you're a Buddha!
Hongaku as good as Dogen, from what you have read, unsuccessful to heed between original note as good as a actualization that came when a defilements that vaporous note were cleared away. Going back to a Pali canon you find this thoroughfare that, if you grant that thoughts is intrinsically pure, seems to weigh against both Dogen as good as hongaku.
"Monks, this thoughts (citta) is luminous, though it is defiled by a fortuitous defilements....Monks, this thoughts is radiant [when] freedfrom a fortuitous defilements. This a educated noble disciple understands as it really is" (A. i. 10).
If a thoughts is to turn luminous, that is Buddha Mind, then to be such it contingency be liberated from fortuitous defilements. This is where investigate as good as practice come in to a picture; they have up a poignant part of a pardon process. On a same track, if you have been to effectuate a original note or Buddha-nature it can usually be consummated if you mislay a defileme! nts that have it seem unactualized as good as not benefaction in our every day life. Mere idea that you have been already entirely enlightened, a perspective that both hongaku as good as Dogen share, should be regarded as uncanonicalnot a Buddha's teaching.
"So-called Buddha-Nature is not something that has been made. Only, it is overspread by defilement. Only a chairman who thoroughly cuts it away, either he be a Kshatriya, Brahmin, Vaishya or Sudra sees a Buddha-Nature as good as attains unsurpassed Enlightenment" (Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra).
What hongaku as good as Dogen do not stress is a dismissal of a sravas (defilements) that have been clarity desire, enterprise for continued existence, wrong view, as good as ignorance. These sravas have been a certain snag to realizing original enlightenment, or a same, our Buddha-nature; including a pure Mind.
Judging by this thoroughfare next from a Sandhinirmochana Sutra, Dogens idea that practice as good as note have been a single as good as a same appears not to be a case.
If ultimate law as good as practices had no disproportion at all, everybody would already see a truth, as good as everybody would already have attained a top expedient, willing nirvana, or they would have already attained autarchic undiluted note (trans. T. Cleary, Buddhist Yoga).
Practice is usually necessary to mislay a defilements. Accordingly, practice as good as note have been conjunction a same (Dogen) nor have been they unrelated (hongaku) in that box practice would be unnecessary.
