Shinshu Roberts

“We see an uncountable number of stars all projecting their own time continuum, which we experience as now. Although this is true, the time of the stars and the time of our being are part of the whole of that moment. We make the moment as the moment is making us. We with all of reality share the function of making the whole, and in that way each part is the same as the whole. Yet, each aspect — a person, a star — has its own past and future particularity. At the same time there is just this one moment being enacted as right now, an interconnected, totally functioning universal whole.”
― Shinshu Roberts, Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji

“Dignified behavior as the whole cosmos and dignified behavior as the whole Earth, we should learn in practice, as the whole world, the state of never having been hidden. What has never been hidden is not only the whole world, but also that which perfectly hits the target of acting buddha: dignified behavior.7 This dignified behavior is setting the self out in array, which is not different from the world worlding the world. Although we may not be aware of this practice, it is not a hidden activity. Rather it is being present for what is all around us. Unfortunately we are often so caught up in our own agenda that we are unaware. Arraying oneself is to drop the self-absorbed self and to be unified with all that is presencing.”
― Shinshu Roberts, Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji