Sublime

have done may not have been totally correct, to live with the fact and not interpret the fact according to your pleasure or form of reaction, that is not frightening. Life isn’t very simple. One can live simply but life itself is vast, complex. It extends from horizon to horizon. You can live with few clothes or with one meal a day, but that is not

This ancient sage tells us quite openly that the act of simplicity—of living directly—is the doorway to the Source of all Being.

By contrast, these poignant feelings come, not from a subject, but from an unbounded openness, which wants only what is happening now. This unbounded openness does not look for satisfaction in the next person, emotion, or thought. It seems to accept every situation as is.

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.

They realize that how “spiritual” you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness.

are we practicing just to express this limitless being, or because we think we’re not a limitless being? And once we discover we are a limitless being, will we continue practicing? Well, of course. That’s what limitless beings do. This is Dogen Zenji’s practice-enlightenment, practice-realization. This practice itself expresses the limitlessness th

Complete openness, complete vulnerability to life, is (surprisingly enough) the only satisfactory way of living our life.

Only the person who is empty of self is happy; he has no jealousy, no hatred, no anger, because there is no self to compare.

Zen practice is to see through our desire to cling to our history and to reasons (thoughts) for why we are as we are, instead of working with the reality of what we are.