The power of life that is buried deep inside you will never rise up until you have become convinced that you're walking the only path open for you.

Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live.

Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true.

Everything you encounter is your life.

Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I live simply as one individual among millions of other individuals, nor do I leave everything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into existence, live it out, and take it with me when I die.

The power of life that is buried deep inside you will never rise up until you have become convinced that you're walking the only path open for you.