Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘Most of us live within the confines of our identity as a discreet, separate self that is desperately trying to stabilize its own existence. However, we all carry the natural freedom of our essential nature, though unrecognized. As expressed at the beginning of the Heart Sutra: “Indescribable, inconceivable, and inexpressible, the perfection of sublime knowing is unborn and unceasing—the very nature of space. It is the realm of your own self-knowing, timeless awareness.” With sublime knowing, we intellectually go through the process of understanding the empty nature of things. The perfection of sublime knowing, however, requires that we are grounded in the direct experience of our primordial, nonconceptual nature.’ (from Lion’s Roar)