Simultaneously I Am Myself, The Child I

Simplicity Is The Whole Secret Of Well-being.

This World Is Painted On A Wild Dark Metal

When We Are Mired In The Relative World, Never Lifting Our Gaze To The Mystery, Our Life Is Stunted, Incomplete; We Are Filled With Yearning For That Paradise That Is Lost When, As Young Children, We Replace It With Words And Ideas And Abstractions - Such As Merit, Such As Past, Present, And Future - Our Direct, Spontaneous Experience Of The Thing Itself, In The Beauty And Precision Of This Present Moment.

In This Very Breath That We Take Now Lies The Secret That All Great Teachers Try To Tell Us.

In Zazen, One Is One's Present Self, What One Was, And What One Will Be, All At Once.