Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘All we have to do is to fulfill, fulfill something at every moment when you do, when you must do. With wholeheartedness, this is our limitation to escape, to escape from suffering, to escape from suffering. So, to devote yourself, to devote yourself to do something at the moment, completely, is to escape, not to escape, to be far away, to keep away from your troubles, sufferings. So, this is, in Buddhism, Zen.

This is termed the state of, the state of, the state of, the perfection of mind is Zen. Zen is the whole. The key is opportunity, opportunity, or the opportunity, the, at every opportunity, every opportunity when your mind is functioning, functioning, this is key. The gate is to manifest, manifestation. So, this is the full function, full function.

The limitation, to adopt the limitation is to practice the full function, Zen again, of your life. So, The contentment doesn’t mean to live in seclusion, doesn’t mean to live in seclusion. By escaping, escaping from the city life, it doesn’t mean, it doesn’t mean to live in the deep mountains, by escaping from the city life.

And it doesn’t mean to be conceited, to be contented to, conceited, to be conceited to, to think, to think as they are. In other words, the viewpoint of life is not self-conceited, the self-conceited way of life, way of life.’ (from the Katagiri Roshi Archive)

This talk is from 1969, nearly three years after the extract I posted the other day, but the thread of what he is trying to communicate feels very similar.