Dōgen is no liar, neither is Gary or Jacques. Today is a day inside the scroll, a day beyond our wildest dreams, a day into which we are writing ourselves without having to. A day of gracefulness and peace, if we mean it to be. Such a day does not know how to end. It will ...
It says, “We are this, we want to be this”—not to negate something bad or undesirable but to express (exuberate!) a desirable. It may be wrong about what it is and wants, but still it is not formed in the mirror of hatred, blame, resentment, grievance, animosity and revenge. ...