Last time we saw how a moment of Zazen --is--Buddha sitting, makes all the world right, just the way everything should be.
Furthermore, one must thereafter rise from the cushion and live, as one can, by the Wisdom gained.
Let me try to explain in today's talk ...
When one displays the buddha
mudra with one's whole body and mind, sitting upright in this samadhi even for
a short time ...
At that time, all things together awaken to supreme
enlightenment and utilize the buddha-body, immediately go beyond the culmination
of awakening, and sit upright under the kingly bodhi tree. At the same time,
they turn the incomparable, great dharma wheel and begin expressing ultimate
and unfabricated profound prajna.
These balanced and right states of realization also work the other way, following paths of intimate and mystical cooperation, so that this person who sits in Zazen steadfastly gets free of body and mind, cuts away miscellaneous impure views and thoughts [accumulated] from the past, and thus experiences and understands the natural and pure Buddha-Dharma.
From: Talk on the Wholehearted Practice of the Way - Kosho Uchiyama (with Shohaku Okumura, Taigen Daniel Leighton) and Bendowa - A Talk about Pursuing the Truth - Nishijima-Cross
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