The Seba library treats Plum in 5 passages, across 3 authors (including Dōgen, Eihei, Beekes, Robert, Jung, C. G.).
Dōgen’s family style of practice is pure and undefiled, like the plum blossoms and snow illuminated by the full moon. The way to protect our body is to practice zazen.
Dōgen deploys the plum blossom as the cardinal symbol of unselfconscious, undefiled practice — the visible sign of spring-nature arising within winter, identical with the practitioner’s own original purity.
, Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki, 1234thesis
προυμνη [E] ‘plum tree, Prunus’ (Thphr.). ⟨PG?, LW Anat.?⟩ .DER προυμνον [n.] ‘plum’ (Gal. et al.). .ETYM Probably of Anatolian origin, like the tree itself.
Beekes establishes the Greek lexeme for plum tree and fruit as probably an Anatolian loanword, borrowed into Latin as prunus, situating the plum within the pre-Greek substrate vocabulary.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
ΚΟΚΚΥΜΗΛΟΝ [n.] ‘plum’ (Archil.). ⟨PG?⟩ .DER κοκκυμηλεα [f.] ‘plum tree’ (Arar. Corn., Thphr.), -μηλων [m.] ‘plum garden’
This entry traces the Pre-Greek origin of κοκκυμηλον (‘plum’) attested from Archilochus, with its derived forms for plum tree and plum orchard, reinforcing the substrate character of Greek botanical nomenclature for the plum.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
προυμνον [n.] ‘plum’ (Gal. et al.). .ETYM Probably of Anatolian origin, like the tree itself; cf. the Phryg. TN … Borrowed as Lat. prunus,-urn, perhaps from an intermediate *προu(F)νον.
A parallel etymological entry confirming the Anatolian derivation of the Greek word for plum and its direct borrowing into the Latin botanical vocabulary as prunus.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
58. dull 59. plum plum jam 8·3 60. to hit End of Test III
In Jung’s association experiment, ‘plum’ appears as a stimulus-word eliciting ‘plum jam’ with an elevated reaction time, functioning here as psychometric data rather than as a symbolic or botanical object.
, Experimental Researches, 1904aside