Dogen

“The ears should be in line with the shoulders, and the nose with the navel.”

“Settle into a steady, immobile sitting position.”

“When the practice is firmly established, the seal of the Buddha is impressed on body and mind.”

“Time is being itself.”

“Being is time.”

“Each thing in the entire world is a separate time in one continuum.”

“And because they are time of one being, they are my being-time.”

“The way the self arrays itself is the form of the entire world.”

“See each thing in this entire world as a moment of time.”

“Things do not hinder one another, just as moments do not hinder one another.”

“You should know that even though all dharmas are intimately connected, each remains in its own dharma position.”

“Firewood becomes ash, and it does not become firewood again.”

“Yet, do not suppose that the ash is future and the firewood past.”

“You should understand that firewood abides in the phenomenal expression of firewood.”

“Which fully includes past and future.”

“And is independent of past and future.”

“Ash abides in the phenomenal expression of ash, which fully includes future and past.”

“Just as firewood does not become firewood again after it is ash, you do not return to birth after death.”

“This being so, it is an established way in buddha-dharma to deny that birth turns into death.”