You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
Taisen DeshimaruZen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.
Taisen DeshimaruYou cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.
Taisen Deshimaru