
But here it is. Right here.
There’s no getting there or not getting there.
This is what zen calls the gate of sudden enlightenment.
If you hesitate, you’ve lost it. If you go after it,
you draw farther away from it.

But here it is. Right here.
There’s no getting there or not getting there.
This is what zen calls the gate of sudden enlightenment.
If you hesitate, you’ve lost it. If you go after it,
you draw farther away from it.

Your inner power
makes influence possible.
There is danger in ambition and
agenda-making. The truly beneficial
influence is that which flows
naturally from your
attention to what
is correct.
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
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how I nourish this phoenix mind
Woodcutters and fishermen know just how to use things.
What would they do with fancy chairs and meditation platforms?
In straw sandals and with a bamboo staff, I roam three thousand worlds
Dwelling by the water, feasting on the wind, year after year.

How boring to
sit idly on the floor, not meditating,
not breaking through. Look at the horses
racing along the Kamo River!
That’s zazen!

wanting enlightenment is a big mistake
Zen mind is not zen mind.
Throwing away zen mind
is correct zen mind.
Don’t know mind
is no thinking and no thinking means
empty mind. Empty mind is before thinking.
When you keep don’t know mind 100 percent,
then you are already the universe, and the
universe is you. You and everything
have already become one.
an investigation of seung sahn’s seon