Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘So my experience of existence shifted direction from my awareness going outward to the world around me, to the world coming to me and filling me up. The trees filled me up, the sounds, the environment, created my body. The energy of everything external became my internal world. And the more honest and sincere, the more vulnerable to reality I became, it would flow through me more and more. And I saw that the moment was huge, and that I could look at the moment, I could take it and walk around it. The moment was no longer some current of mass confusion, but something I could truly experience with my whole being.’ (from the Zen Embodiment blog)

I saw this quote recently on Instagram, and, as other such descriptions do, it left me with the shiver of knowing I have tasted moments like this – which we all can – and that this is really what it is all about.