What Isn’t Practice of the Way?
Dōgen Zenji wrote:
yomo sugara
hinemosu ni nasu
nori no michi
mina kono kyō no
koe to kokoro toThrough the night
and the day
everything we do in the Way
is the sound and heart of this sutra
In practice, and in life, is anything outside the realm of the Way?
Does practice end when rising from the zafu? Does one not practice while asleep?
If everything done for the Dharma is practice of the Way—what then of my priorities?