道元の非思量と教育の限界性について

抄録

The thought of Dogen, which makes the dialectic of Zen meditation the direct path to the Way of the Buddha assumes that the triad-Faith, Action, Realization are one. This teaching can be condensed into the acetical training of Zazen, inherent in which is the dialectic of absolute affirmation, that is to say, the negation of the negation of the triad, reflective consideration, denial of reflective consideration, and forgetfulness of self. The dialectic of Zen meditation is the process of self-realization of spirit, forming a circular movement from ogiginating absolute to terminal absolute and, in self-developing rhythm, reaching a reconciliation on a higher level of the relative tension between reflective consideration and its negation. Dogen's teaching draws man beyond the particular categories of “the Absolute” and “Ignorance, ” insisting always on the possibility of the asceticism of dialectic negation. In Zen meditation the reconciliation of the two worlds-namely, that “everything is holy” and “identity of asceticical training and enlightenment” -cannot be considered conceptually as the object of reflective thinking. It presupposes the decisive work of faith, the so-called arousing of the heart for enlightenment and can be intuitively achieved only in the intense fervor of Zen meditation. What makes the dialectic found in the dialectic of Buddhism the authentic thing is this arousing of the heart for enlightenment, and its process of self-realization is the absolute term of forgetfulness of self. Precisely because it is absolute, if we wish to understand it as an educational principle we can grasp it only in its conditioned from. Herein we recognize the nature of its educational limits.