Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘Buddhism is not just understanding what life is. If you understand what life is, what you are, still you have to bring that understanding to life, and put it into actual practice. Understanding your life is just where true practice begins. First shut your mouth and walk forward, not backward. Toward what?

No destination. Of course you can see a destination you are heading for, but that is not the true destination. This is because you should realize that the destination aimed at by you is very fickle, capricious, and unreliable under conditions. The true one is immense, immense. This means that you must not be left completely in confusion by the experiences of failure and success in the realm of the destination aimed at, but accept them, see them with your full awareness, and keep moving forward in the realm of the immense destination with your mouth shut.’ (from HoTo magazine)