During Rohatsu Sesshin, Gyodo Sensei reflects on our Ango Practice Period and the Jukai Ceremony earlier in the day where four members received the precepts.

Drawing from the final chapter in Maezumi Roshi’s Appreciate Your Life, “Shakyamuni and I are Practicing Together,” he encourages us toward this same deep realization —  that we are not separate from all Buddhas throughout space and time. 

Being one with the Buddha, being one AS the Buddha. As Maezumi Roshi said, please have good trust in yourself. Appreciate your life as the very life of the Buddha.