Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘Coming to the realization of Buddha Mind, to Buddha Nature, is understanding once and for all, we lack nothing. There is nothing else we have to be; there is nothing else we can be actually. This is it. There is nothing lacking in existence. We are spiritually incorrect when we think that we lack anything at all. It is an affront to the Dharma to think that we lack something. It is the same about any kind of claim that we make about existence. There is nothing missing.’ (Receiving the Marrow)

I have been trying to write something personal once a week, but I got to the end of Thursday evening and realised I hadn’t put anything together. It has been something of a quiet week, and most of my spare brain power has been devoted to the Genjo Koan still, so here is a post from the archive that would also serve as commentary for that.