Shōhaku Okumura Rōshi speaks on the final paragraph of page 133 and extending onto page 144 of his teach Kōshō Uchiyama Rōshi's book, "Opening the Hand of Thought." The paragraph discusses the second of Dōgen's Three Minds (Jp. Sanshin, the source of our temple's name), namely Rōshin (老心), which literally means "Matured Mind," but can be translated as "Nuturing Mind" or "Parental Mind." Okumura Rōshi explains how Nuturing Mind must supplement Magnanimous Mind. Magnanimous Mind makes no distinctions, but Nuturing Mind must do so in order to make beneficial actions to help all beings. Nuturing Mind is therefore the way we make distinctions on the basis of non-distinction.
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