卽今

Readings

Pinyin: ji jīn

Wade-Giles: chi chin

Hangul: 즉금

Korean MC: jeuk geum

Korean MR: chŭk kŭm

Katakana: ソッコン

Katakana: ソクコン

Hepburn: sokkon

Hepburn: soku kon

[right] now

• The present, as distinguished from the past and future, where the meditator's attention should be. In Chan texts, often paired together with "here" 此處. 〔碧巖錄 T 2003.48.140c29〕 [resp. Charles Muller]

Dictionary References:

Dai kanwa jiten, Vol. 2, p. 1722

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 773c

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 380

Koga, 273

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 886a, 891c →

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