Bendowa
It is a
practice that balances the active and the passive, and it sets the
body-and-mind right. The authentic form of this practice, which is
known as Zazen, is sitting in an upright posture. Although we each
have the natural state, if we do not return to it in this practice, it does
not show itself, and if we do not experience it, we do not realize what
it is. It comes to us and fills us as soon as we give up our intentions,
and is not a discriminative state. When we speak, this state expresses
itself through our mouth in complete freedom. Buddhas live in and
maintain themselves in this natural state in which they do not separate
reality into two parts: mental and physical. People who do not separate
reality into two parts are buddhas. The way I am teaching now to follow
the Buddha’s truth is a way that allows us to really experience everything
clearly as it is, and gives us a state of wholeness that brings
true freedom.
When you get rid of everything that hinders you and
find this freedom, these words that you are reading now will have no
relevance.