Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘For the most part, just looking at my own heart, when I’ve been in sync with truth, I felt better. When I was not in sync with truth, I felt poorly. That might be the only judgment that takes place in this sphere. In the book, in that last 15 or 20 pages, I got a lot of surprises. Things that I was rooting for didn’t happen. That’s the beauty of the writing process. It’s almost like something arises out of me that’s a little smarter, a little more fair, a little more curious, and hovers over the desk for a while. Then the theory is the book urges that spirit out of the reader as well, and the two things merge. So you get this brief period of rarefied communication that seems to inspire a suite of really nice things, like a little more empathy, a little more engagement, a little more patience. Anybody can judge. Let’s go deeper. I really cherish that feeling.’ (from the New York Times)