Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘The awakening of Shakyamuni Buddha is beyond our ability to fathom. The truth is we don’t know the world. We don’t even know our own body, much less the edges of what we call our self. The vow is asking us to deeply investigate the world in each meeting between ourselves and another being. That meeting can be a meeting of liberation or it can be a meeting of co-opting or capitulating; getting someone on board for what we want, or at least our idea of how things are, or giving in to theirs. But that’s the engine of samsara. Right in that meeting, the truth of awakening is also present. That’s where this vow of all beings doesn’t sound impossibly huge to me; it sounds like the immediacy of this life.’ (from Lion’s Roar)