Shobogenzo revisited

It must have been more than a year when i started reading Dogen Zenjis Shobogenzo. Here in Germany there is a expensive but great translation available with lots of commentary. The translation is still not finished, the start dating back to 2001. The whole edition ist splitted in 4 books, with number 4 coming this autumn.

Right now i read book 2, and, like book 1, i find it extremely difficult to read. Maybe without lots of practice you can't even realize everything Dogen is talking about, so i hope i can increase my efforts in meditation. But the things you can understand with your monkey mind are also impressive. He uses lots of complex methods to visualize the dharma. Not without reason this masterpiece may be the most important book of soto zen and buddhism itself.

There is also a free english translation available at the Soto Zen Text Project, but it is far from complete.