
You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight

To forget the self, however, is to study the self, not to destroy the self. It is to help, enrich, and enhance others by completely going through yourself to touch the lives of others.
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
If you really want to please yourself, just forget your longing and attend to your daily life. In this we find goldenness.
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
In Sanskrit, the word for “right” is samma. It means “to go along with,” “to go together,” “to turn together.” It originally comes from a term that means “to unite.” So “right” is a state of being in which everything can live together, or turn together, united.
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
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
So one thing is not one thing. One thing is all things, manifested as one thing. To
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR LIVES, we generally pick out good aspects and bad ones. Then we criticize ourselves. Then we suffer.
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
There is nowhere to go. This is liberation. It’s very simple. Too simple. If you touch it, it’s gone. Freedom is very intimate. It’s like a secret in your heart.
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
Zazen is a fundamental practice. It is about taking care of this moment with wholeheartedness. Just do it—right now, right here.
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
whatever you think, however much you scream, the disease, the cancer, life and death—all go on beyond the world of attachments that you create. You must learn to deal with death without attaching to it, without holding on to anything at all.