Zen Master Dogen’s [1200-1253] response to a question a student asks him. This is recorded in the Shobogenzo: Treasury of the True Dharma Eye.

In essence, this is Dogen’s response to C.S. Lewis’ famed concept of “You don’t have a soul — you are a soul, you have a body.”

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