Zen master Dogen Zenji (1200-1253) said, “To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things.” The air we breathe, the water we drink, neighbours, loved ones, and strangers all with their peculiarities, the myriad crevices of our bodies and hearts, the places where we walk, work, pray, weep, eat, defecate, sleep, and awake: everywhere, everything.
“Love is mysterious,” writes Jack Kornfield. “We don’t know what it is, but we know when it is present. If we seek love, we must ask where it is to be found. It is here only this moment. To love in the past is simply a memory. To love in the future is a fantasy. There is only one place where love can be found., where intimacy and awakening can be found, and that is in the present. … The only place we can genuinely love a tree, the sky, a child, or our lover is in the here and now.”
source: Kornfield, J. (1993). A path with heart: a guide through the perils and promises of spiritual life. Bantam, p.333.
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