Each of us individually cannot really do all the necessary things in life. At some point we accept the need to call the plumber or the dentist. No human is an island never has been - we beings and the great earth are the "One Body" as Bernie Glassman called it. Same as in practice. In the forms of practice like zazen, kinhin, bowing, lighting incense, chanting and memorizing sutras, and understanding and explaining the wisdom all require different natures. Not one is above another, in fact...

Unfathomable reality arises as the universe dreams the universe. But who can deny that bell? The bell collaborates with us, we with it and all of us with the great Earth simultaneously achieve the Way. This is the Dream. This one moment arises and rolls along Awareness knows. In my life, the more I rely on simple awareness the more compassion and empathy arises naturally. Can I trust the non-personal view without a perspective of right and wrong or good and bad? Being this unfiltered pure...

The 40th Zen Ancestor Tongan Daopi had anxiety about obtaining "it" until Yunju told him, “you are already such a thing.” "If you want to acquire such a thing, you must become such a person. Since you are already such a person, why be anxious about such a thing?" Togan woke up! It has to be this exact being, here and now. My feet are cold over by the kitchen. In Keizan’s Teisho he says; “The winds of discrimination cannot enter this place of knowing.” The "knowing by being" as Mujo...