Steve Minard’s Reviews > How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo > Status Update

"Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest? When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves."

" The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present."

"The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much."

"The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream."

"Thus, the paradox is that in refusing what is traditionally considered to be the ultimate goal of Buddhism and choosing to remain behind to serve as a guide, one really acquires the only true enlightenment and nirvana.