Shibayama Roshi said once in sesshin, “This Buddha that you all want to see, this Buddha is very shy. It’s hard to get him to come out and show himself.” Why is that? Because the Buddha is ourselves, and we’ll never see the Buddha until we’re no longer attached to all this extra stuff. We’ve got to be willing to go into ourselves honestly. When we can be totally honest with what’s happening right now, then we’ll see it. We can’t have just a piece of the Buddha. Buddhas come whole. Our practice has nothing to do with, “Oh, I should be good, I should be nice, I should be this…or that.” I am who
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