When we drop our self-centred motivations and allow all things to come toward us to carry out practice, that is realisation.

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When we drop our self-centred motivations and allow all things to come toward us to carry out practice, that is realisation. This means that we cannot practice by ourselves; the subject of practice is not one particular person, it is all things carrying out practice/ realization through the individual’s body and mind. This is dropping off body and mind.

Dropping off body and mind means we participate with the whole universe as it practices through our individual bodies and minds. We don’t practice individually to improve ourselves; rather, we settle down peacefully within the network of interdependent origination and allow the universal life force to practice through us for all beings."

~Shohaku Okumura,
Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo