Even though we say “just sit,” to understand what it means is rather difficult, maybe. Dogen Zenji left us many teachings to explain what is “just to sit,” but it does not mean his teaching is so difficult. When you sit without thinking or expecting anything, and when you accept yourself as a buddha or as an ornament of buddha, or if you understand everything is the unfolding of the absolute teaching, or if you understand everything is a part of one whole being–when you reach this understanding, whatever we say, whatever we think, or whatever we see, that is the actual teaching of Buddha. And whatever we do, that is actual practice of the Buddha himself.
—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-07-24 - as found on
shunryusuzuki.com
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