Editing Dōgen (section)

===Perfect expression===
Another essential element of Dōgen's 'performative' metaphysics is his conception of Perfect expression (''Dōtoku'', {{lang|ja|道得}}).<ref>Cf. {{harvp|Kim|2004}} and more systematically based on a theory of symbols {{harvp|Müller|2013}}; reviewed by {{harvp|Döll|2015}}.</ref> "While a radically critical view on language as soteriologically inefficient, if not positively harmful, is what Zen Buddhism is famous for,"<ref name=":0">{{harvp|Döll|2015|p=637}}</ref> it{{Clarify|reason=what can be argued?|date=September 2018}} can be argued "'within the framework of a rational theory of language, against an obscurantist interpretation of Zen that time and again invokes experience.'"<ref>{{harvp|Müller|2013|p= 25}} cited after {{harvp|Döll|2015|p=637}}</ref> Dōgen distinguishes two types of language: monji {{lang|ja|文字}}, the first, – after Ernst Cassirer – "discursive type that constantly structures our experiences and—more fundamentally—in fact produces the world we experience in the first place"; and dōtoku {{lang|ja|道得}}, the second, "presentative type, which takes a holistic stance and establishes the totality of significations through a texture of relations.".<ref>{{harvp|Döll|2015|p=637}}, cf. {{harvp|Müller|2013|p= 231}}.</ref> As Döll points out, "It is this second type, as Müller holds, that allows for a positive view of language even from the radically skeptical perspective of Dōgen’s brand of Zen Buddhism."<ref name=":0"/>