Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘We could think of sitting meditation as practice in non-stealing. It is the practice of nothing to get. That there is nothing to get is really one of the hardest things to get-and to practice. We suffer from the delusion that we lack something, and as a result, we are not satisfied. So, we end up wanting to steal from somewhere. We want to get some thing we imagine we don’t have. We imagine that it isn’t “mine” yet and we want it to be “mine.” Part of the delusion is imagining that it is a question of having something we don’t have, whereas the discovery is that I am it not I have that! ‘ (Opening to Oneness)

Perhaps a commentary on yesterday’s poem.