Dogen's understanding of life is that the universe is a living thing. In the Western tradition sometimes we use the word God to express that same idea. In order to understand himself,* God arrays his own features before himself and experiences them as if they were other than him. Yet ultimately God remains indivisible. This is one way of looking at it.
*God has no gender, but the English language demands one, so I'm using the male pronoun because that's the norm.
---Brad Warner, commenting on Master Dogen's Uji---
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