I’ve been reading Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, which is an amazing and very approachable overview of Zen meditation. It’s kind of the perfect companion piece to the book I was previously obsessed with (and can’t recommend enough) — The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
I love this passage:
“Our usual understanding of life is dualistic: you and I, this and that, good and bad. But actually these discriminations are themselves awareness of the universal existence.
‘You’ means to be aware of the universe in the form of you, and ‘I’ means to be aware of it in the form of I. You and I are just swinging doors. This is the true experience of life through Zen practice.”