What is it we are seeking when we come to practice? What do we hope to find? Seeking something — more ease and less suffering, our true nature, less reactivity, whatever it may be — can be useful. It brings us to practice, to our cushion, to retreats. But seeking also implies that something is missing. And can blind us to the very thing we are seeking.

Daido Loori Roshi would always say “We are born perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” How can this be? What does our Buddha Nature look like? What we end up finding may be surprising.