Sublime

Our usual understanding of life is dualistic: you and I, this and that, good and bad. But actually these discriminations are themselves the awareness of the universal existence. “You” means to be aware of the universe in the form of you, and “I” means to be aware of it in the form of I. You and I are just swinging doors. This kind of understanding

describe, the nothingness, that wham of past, present, future gone—no separation between past and present. There is no self, absolutely none. The redwoods parted and it was whitish and granular, particulate, like seeing between the atoms. Who knows how long it lasted, but I found myself still walking when I arrived back, and my immediate thought wa

In the teachings of Zen Master Suzuki Roshi this same spaciousness is referred to as “beginner’s mind,” saying that when we have a beginner’s mind the whole world is newly discoverable for ourselves.

was in this spirit that we invited such visitors to the Academy as D. T. Suzuki, Swami Ramdas (a bubbling bhaktiyogi), G. P. Malalasekera, the Bikkhu Pannananda from Thailand, the Zen master Asahina Sogen from Kamakura, the Thera (Elder) Dharmawara from Cambodia, and Ruth Sasaki, who entranced the whole student body with her formal and definitive l

Khotanese monk’s name was Shikshananda,

The process of the Four Noble Truths. The practice of mindful awareness. The power of self-reliance.

Suzuki Roshi,