ninh binh, vietnam, august 2023 An idea dear to Zen Master Dogen that he speaks with emphasis about as an essential part of his expounding of the dharma is : shushō-ittō. In Japanese, shu means practice, and shō means realization or verification. And ittō means equality or oneness. Translated into English, that would mean practice and realization are one. They are not two separate and distinct phenomena. This view turns the traditional Buddhist approach of a linear path, the