Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘All the myriad things are neither opposed to nor contrary to your true self. Directly pass through to freedom and they make one whole. It has been this way from time without beginning.
The only problem is when people put themselves in opposition to it and spurn it and impose orientations of grasping and rejecting, creating a concern where there is none. This is precisely why they are not joyfully alive.
If you can cut off outward clinging to objects and forget your false ideas of self, things themselves are the true self, and the true self itself is things: things and the true self are one suchness, opening through to infinity.
Then at all times, whatever you may be doing, it stands like a mile-high wall – where is all the trouble and disturbance?’ (Zen Letters)