Our theme for this year’s Ango practice period is “Appreciate Your Life as the Awakened Life.” Our practice, indeed, is this very life. We have everything we need, right here, right now. We work with what we have, and we wake up to it.

Zen Master Dogen Zenji said, “Do not travel to other dusty lands forsaking your own sitting place. If you cannot find the truth where you are, you will never find it.” Your life, just as it, is the Awakened Life, already. Do you believe that? What gets in the way?