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What have they! What have they done!

Please, stop!

Please, stop!

Shut up!

Good enough! Let's go.

A heretical sect destroyed!

You reap what you sow!

Water! Get water!

Driven out of Kennin Temple...

...and now driven out of here with our aims half fulfilled...

I am sick with disappointment.

I am heartbroken.

Nevertheless...

...we cannot allow the true light of Buddhism to be put out.

Fellow monks, we will depart...

...for Echizen, in order to lay the foundation...

...for true Buddhism.

Who are you?

Oh, Gikai, you made it.

Master Dogen, I, Gikai of the Dharma sect and the others...

...have raced here to ask your permission to join you.

Let us proceed.

The heavenly way...

...is lofty and serene.

The earthly way...

...solid and still.

The human way...

...is calm and tranquil.

Throughout the universe...

...there is unending peace.

The person who helped to clear my way towards enlightenment...

...was an elderly Kitchen Master.

The position of Kitchen Master has always been entrusted only to monks...

...whose hearts are committed to seeking the Way.

This is because...

...the practice of Kitchen Master...

...requires a single-minded purity permitting no idle thoughts.

"I owe my knowledge of teachings and my understanding of practice...

...entirely to that Kitchen Master. "

Kitchen Master Instructions "entirely to that Kitchen Master"

Kitchen Master Instructions.

How is it?

Have you grown used to the work of Kitchen Master?

I do my best.

That's good.

Gikai sama, may I ask you a question?

What is it?

I understand it logically, but...

I am not able to sit Zazen the way everyone else can.

I cannot help but panic at the thought of being left behind.

Then you should sit while everyone else sleeps.

You are here, Orin.

Yes.

Master Dogen...

...please allow me to become a nun here.

I cannot.

Is that because I am a sinful...

...and disgraced woman?

- We do not question past acts - Why not, then?

First you must abandon your attachment to the past.

When you are free of your attachments...

...though you may be in the secular world...

...you shall be pure.

Return to Kyoto and do your best.

I will not return.

Gikai sama.

We have no rice to cook.

Nor millet left.

If there is not enough rice...

...then make porridge.

It is not enough for porridge.

Then make rice broth.

It is not enough for rice broth.

In that case...

...we shall drink boiled water and sit Zazen.

Completely disengage from normal life.

...and abandon everything you had been engaged with.

Abandon thinking about right and wrong...

...and of thinking itself, along with thoughts of enlightenment.

Abandon all intentions and thoughts.

This is known as Without Thinking.

We do not sit Zazen for the purpose of enlightenment.

Just sitting in meditation.

That itself is enlightenment.

Shunryo sama.

Orin san.

When did you arrive?

Ten days ago.

I did not see you...

...and feared you had moved away.

I am responsible for the cooking...

...so I cannot sit with everyone else.

What is wrong?

I do not know.

"Plant the seeds.

"In the fields and levees.

"In the fall, there'll be.

"Five kinds of grains.

"In the fall, there'll be five kinds of grains"

Shunryo sama.

Orin san.

What are you doing?

I'm mushroom hunting.

I can be your guide I know a good spot.

Look, there.

Here, too.

Ouch!

Shunryo sama!

It's not a poisonous snake, you should be fine.

I am so sorry I gave in to temptation.

If you find me acceptable...

I don't mind.

Orin san, please forgive me.

Now you see the base motives that brought me into Buddhism.

But for me to defile you, whose motives are so pure...

The fault is mine.

I wanted to interact with you as a normal woman...

...ignoring my own past.

And I wanted you to touch me, not for my female body...

...but as a real human being.

I am the one who tempted you Forgive me.

Shunryo sama!

Shunryo, what are you doing!

Shunryo!

Shunryo.

What is the meaning of this?

Zen Master.

I am horrified to realize that the demon...

...of lust has settled into my heart.

It is unforgivable in one who seeks the Way.

Upon careful consideration...

I have resolved to take a leave.

I can no longer defile this temple...

...and your teachings with my presence.

Is the demon still within you?

Tell him...

It's gone.

Are you...

Are you sure that is your decision?

Yes.

Master.

It is time to sit.

Everyone take your places.

Shunryo!

The gates of this temple...

Are always open for you.

Shunryo sama, don't go!

Don't come near me.

I love you!

Sir Hatano, you are most welcome.

Please forgive my rudeness...

...arriving so early in the morning...

...and interrupting your Zen meditation.

No, no, for you, Sir Hatano...

...you are welcome at any hour of any day.

I can never possibly repay the great debt.

I owe you for donating this Zendo.

I remain constantly grateful to you.

It is I who am grateful.

I trust your arrival here...

...means Hojo Tokiyori is in dire peril.

It is exactly so.

It was a merciless battle.

The Hojo and Miura clans had been closely knit...

...ever since Yoritomo formed their alliance.

But yesterday's friend is today's foe.

In the event, samurai must kill with arrows and with swords.

It was living hell on earth.

You!

Die!

Die!

How dare you defy me, Tokiyori, even in death!

Damn you!

Die! Die!

Damn you!

Go away!

How dare you!

Master Dogen please come to Kamakura.

Please save the Shogun.

I beg, I beg of you.

A dog?

Or a wolf?

Ji-uen...

...let us visit living hell together.

Yes.

I am not going...

...to visit the Shogun, Hojo Tokiyori.

I am going to visit...

...a young man howling in anguish.

Master...

...let me join you.

I cannot.

I am risking my life...

...on this journey to Kamakura.

Ejo...

I cannot also place your life in danger.

I entrust...

...my affairs to you.

Vast is the robe of liberation.

A formless field of benefaction.

I wear the Buddha's dharma.

Saving all sentient beings.

I am Tokiyori.

I am Dogen of Eiheiji Temple.

I've brought you here because I have something to ask you.

What do you wish to ask me?

I hear you've returned from China...

...with the true Buddhism passed down from Buddha.

Tell me, what is that?

They are the true, authentic teachings of Buddha...

...passed down through...

...generations of monks, without interruption.

But that is the same claim made by all those other sects.

No matter how many sutras you read or chant...

...or call out Buddha's name...

...you will not be able to find Buddha's teachings.

What do you do in your sect?

Just sitting in meditation We sit and we sit.

How can true Buddhism be found, sitting around doing nothing?

Lord Tokiyori, that is akin to being in the ocean...

...and claiming to have no water.

What!

Flowers in spring...

...cuckoos in summer...

...the moon in autumn.

...and chilly snows in winter.

Flowers in spring...

...cuckoos in summer...

Dogen, these are most obvious.

They are indeed obvious.

Things as they are.

Seeing things as they truly are...

That is enlightenment.

Zazen is to see the water in the vast ocean.

And yet, until we find the innate Buddha...

...we cannot understand there is water...

...in the vast ocean.

I don't understand, Dogen.

What is enlightenment?

What is the innate Buddha?

Fortunately, the moon is full tonight.

Lord Tokiyori...

...shall we go into the garden and look at the moon?

The moon?

It is magnificent.

Pure and undefiled Perfect and flawless.

That moon which resides in your heart is innate Buddha.

There is only one moon in the heavens.

I cannot see a moon in my heart.

Furthermore...

...that full moon is soon fated to fade and whither.

Lord Tokiyori.

Please look.

Lord Tokiyori.

Can you cut down this moon?

Easily.

I have cut it down.

Is that so?

Have another look.

Though clouds should obscure the moon...

...or the moon disappear from the heavens...

...we cannot say there is no moon.

The moon cannot be wet and water cannot be torn.

The moon is innate Buddha, and water is the self.

This incomprehensible dialogue does not quell my anguish.

Damn you.

You're back again.

Get away!

Dogen.

How can I exterminate these vengeful ghosts...

...which taunt me nightly?

You cannot exterminate them.

You must convert them.

Convert them?

Conversion means acceptance.

The pain, sorrow and hate those spirits carry...

...is precisely your own...

...pain, sorrow and hate.

You must accept all that anguish.

However, until you abandon your entire self...

...you cannot accept that anguish...

...nor will the anguish fade away.

The moment you grasped power in your right hand...

...your left hand grasped suffering.

Are you telling me to abandon my position as Regent of the land?

The very definition of a regent is to hold power instead of a monarch.

It is grasping this power...

...that has caused your anguish.

Lord Tokiyori...

...now is the time to release your grasp.

If I abandon the Regency, there will be civil war.

My duty is to maintain...

...peace throughout the land.

Is that not true?

No matter how brilliant...

...no one who has employed weapons to subjugate his people...

...can rule forever.

Certainly...

...a ruler who knows no peace in his own heart...

...can hardly rule peacefully.

Though you...

...fervently wish to be saved...

...you don't have the courage to abandon anything.

How dare you, Dogen.

I, Tokiyori...

...have never been so insulted in my life!

Lord!

Dogen!

Are you prepared to die!

I always have been.

When I came here, I had already...

...abandoned my body and my soul.

As you wish.

If you do evil you will harvest evil.

If you do good you will harvest good.

When death approaches...

...neither political power nor those you love nor vast fortunes...

...will be able to save you.

To death, you must go alone.

All that will accompany you...

...is everything you did in life.

That and nothing else.

Master Dogen.

Look at this land.

Here on this land...

...I will build a great temple, second to none.

Please stay here in Kamakura...

...and become its founding priest.

It shall become the great foundation of your Buddhism...

I cannot accept.

What?

You refuse?

My temple...

...is Eiheiji, a very, very small temple...

...in the Echizen mountains.

...Master Dogen.

I am so glad to have met you.

Now I must take my leave.

"Flowers in spring...

...cuckoos in summer...

...the moon in autumn.

...and chilly snows in winter. "

Ejo.

Yes.

The monks in the monastery...

...should be as harmonious as milk and water...

...and practice Zen single-mindedly.

Eventually, each monk will become a head priest.

Monks...

...are the eternal companions of Buddhism.

Yes.

Gikai.

Yes.

You shall be the abbot.

Assist Ejo...

...and devote yourself to the three minds.

The three minds are...

...the joyful mind...

...the caring mind...

...and the universal mind.

Yes.

Ji-uen.

Yes.

Is all well?

Of course, sir.

Right now, I can see Tien-tung-shan.

The only ones who actually saw Ju-ching practice Zen...

...are you...

...and I, none other.

You understand my meaning?

Yes.

Kugyo...

You have been a good disciple...

And...

A good friend.

The words you spoke...

...to me, your disciple Ji-uen...

...give me the greatest joy.

First, be free from desire.

Second, be satisfied.

Third, be tranquil.

Fourth, be diligent.

Fifth, remember the teachings.

Sixth, meditate.

Seventh, practice wisdom.

Eighth, avoid pointless talk.

Each of Buddha's disciples...

...learned these Eight Means to Enlightenment.

Unless you study these...

...you are not a Buddhist disciple.

You must not be negligent...

...even for a moment.

Ejo.

Yes.

Let Orin take Buddhist orders.

Yes.

Zazen.

In the time of life...

...there is none other than life.

In the time of death...

...there is none other than death.

Master...

Continue...

...to sit!

Dogen enters Nirvana, 1253

What a surprise.

To get alms from a monk.

Tell me, do monks make a good living?

What the hell is this?

To study the Buddha Way...

...is to study the self.

To study the self...

...is to forget the self.

To forget the self...

...is to be enlightened by everything.

To be enlightened by everything...

...is to free your own...

...body and mind...

...and the body and mind of others.

You hold Buddha in your hands.

Buddha lives in your hands.

So let us hold him close and protect him.

Is the Buddha in my hands?

That is right.

Hold your hands, not like that...

...but like this.

Because it's raining...

Dogen NAKAMURA KANTARO

Orin UCHIDAYUKI

Ji-uen & Minamoto Kugyo TEl RYUSHIN

Hatano Yoshishige KATSUMURA MASANOBU

Hojo Tokiyori FUJIWARA TATSUYA

Shunryo KORA KENGO

Ejo MURAKAMI JUN

Ju-ching ZHENG TIANYONG

Orin's husband AIKAWA SHOW

Kitchen Master SASANO TAKASHI

Monju's mother TAKAHASHI KEIKO

Based on the book by OTANI TETSUO

Music UZAKI RYUDO / NAKANISHI HASEO

Director of Photography MIZUGUCHI NORIYUKI

Production Design MARUO TOMOYUKI

Editing KIKUCHI JUNICHI

Production TWINS JAPAN inc.

Distributed by Kadokawa Pictures, inc.

ZEN Production Committee.

Director / Screenplay TAKAHASHI BANMEl.

English subtitles LINDA HOAGLUND 2009 ZEN Production Committee.