Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘Buddha is the highest vehicle, the highest of all wisdoms, the person who maintains the Buddha Way. It is Buddha being Buddha-nature. It is a guiding teacher. It is being able to utilize a Way that is utterly unhindered. It is unimpeded wisdom. In all this, it readily utilizes cause and effect. It is the free activity of seeking enlightenment and enlightening others. It is the vehicle that carries on cause and effect. Negotiating life, it is not held back by life. Negotiating death, it is not hindered by death. Negotiating the five skandhas, it is like a gate freely opening. It suffers no restriction by the five skandhas. It goes and stops at will, leaves and enters unhindered. Inasmuch as it is thus, distinctions between high and low, intelligent and ignorant, are immaterial. And since this is the same even down to the body of the tiniest ant, all is a wondrous land of purity beyond our comprehension.’ (from Shobogenzo Bussho)

We read this passage recently in the Dogen Study Group, and it knocked us all out. A pure expression of non-obstruction. Now, do you believe it or not?