The practice of bodhisattvas is to sit upright in the center of the world of universal suffering. Such compassionate beings listen to the pain of the world: they feel it, they ache with it. We are built to ache with it. We evolved to feel the hurt. The upright sitting of the buddha ancestors never forgets or abandons sentient beings. They sit in the middle of all the various forms of suffering in order to save all beings. In practicing this way we have the same heart as Shakyamuni Buddha, Bodhidharma, Dogen, and all their great disciples.
