Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘We are here on this planet, six billion of us. Of course, we cannot look at how we can possibly do something to save each and every one of those six billion people. If we think we have to do something for all of them, that is impossible. In Zen, it is looked at in a different way. If we raise not one thought of a small self, that resolves it right there, and resolves it for everyone. We do not do it as a saving of another person; rather, we are manifested as becoming completely that bird’s call or that sun’s shining or that moon’s light. We become true awareness and fresh aliveness.’ (Commentary on the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures)