ludimagister

"Dogen gives a clear description of the existential stance of just sitting: “To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.” That we are conditioned to project our own conceptions onto the world as a dead object-screen is the cause of suffering. When all of phenomena (including what we usually think of as “ours”) join in mutual self-experience and expression, the awakened awareness […] is present."

— Taigen Dan Leighton, The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza