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

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Verdana, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; margin-bottom: 6px;"> "</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2svdhHYtSDX5tEcCWpk9HqhaNH9FyGAokEi4DqqDg7r02BYC27pL7RaXhTmQSniGXkXdDkOWLw13Dzz6GhACDiA3jwUb9XmlFQMN6-k1X2C1e6zih-Uo50AxT_elQxukpBcmkZqeRbEOV/s1600/digi.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2svdhHYtSDX5tEcCWpk9HqhaNH9FyGAokEi4DqqDg7r02BYC27pL7RaXhTmQSniGXkXdDkOWLw13Dzz6GhACDiA3jwUb9XmlFQMN6-k1X2C1e6zih-Uo50AxT_elQxukpBcmkZqeRbEOV/s1600/digi.jpeg" /></a></div> 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.<br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Verdana, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"> Dropping off body and mind means we participate with the whole universe as it practices through our individual bodies and <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">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."</span></div> <div class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Verdana, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;"> <div style="margin-bottom: 6px;"> ~Shohaku Okumura,<br />Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo</div> </div> </div>

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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