One thing that Dogen explores in detail is the Buddhist teaching that mind and matter are not two different things. Rather, they are contrasting aspects of one unified reality that is neither mind nor matter. Even though this insight goes all the way back to the Buddha, 2,500 years ago, it's somehow still startling. I think that's because even Buddhists themselves have often failed to understand it.
~Brad Warner, in It Came From Beyond Zen!
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