That is the golden rule: Before you die, share whatsoever you have. If you are of a sound mind you will share your whole life. Before you die, spend yourself in love.
The great miracle of禅is in the transformation of the mundane into the sacred. And it is tremendously extraordinary because THIS way life has never been approached before, THIS way life has never been respected before.
The Master liberates you from words, he liberates you from all kinds of imaginative philosophies. He brings you to a state of wordless silence. The failure of religion and philosophy is that they all become substitutes for real experience. それらすべての夢!
The society teaches you knowledge. So many schools, colleges, universities…they are all devoted to creating knowledge, more knowledge, implanting knowledge in people. And the function of the Master is just the opposite: what your society has done to you the Master has to undo. His function is basically anti-social, and nothing can be done about it. The Master is bound to be anti-social.
The society, 実際には, makes you uprooted from your nature. It pushes you off your center. It makes you neurotic.
Zen cures you of your abnormality. It makes you again normal, it makes you again ordinary. It does not make you a saint, 覚えて. It does not make you a holy person, 覚えて. It simply makes you an ordinary person — takes you back to your nature, back to your source.
