Each moment is the universe : Zen and the way of being time
Wherever you may be, your life is sustained and supported by the whole universe. The main purpose of human life is to maintain this sanctuary. It is not to climb a ladder to develop your own personal life.
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
Emptiness also means complete. Because our true nature is not the particular form we take in each moment, we say our true nature is formless. We are both a particular form, and we are free from that form. Therefore, we exist as all possibilities, as the entire universe.
Katherine Thanas • The Truth of This Life: Zen Teachings on Loving the World as It Is
Be mindful that you are in the universe and the universe is in you: if the universe is, you are; if you are, the universe is. There is no birth. There is no death. There is no coming. There is no going.