We can put it all down. I wonder what would happen, how it would feel, how it would be, if we dropped everything.  Like Japan’s greatest Zen Master, Dogen Zenji, said 800 years ago –  like a stick of incense on the altar that has burned down and still just has the shape of a stick, but it’s just ashes.  And then phhhhht back into the flower pot or incense holder.  Just drop everything.  He says, drop body and mind and then sense beingness – what Kant called ‘ens’ – if we must translate ‘being’.  Drop everything, drop body and mind, speech.  Drop into it.  … What is being without ‘me’ and ‘mine’? It’s like a gold mine.  It’s like a kryptonite mine to the super-ego. Ahhhhhhh.  How sweet it is!
Lama Surya Das ~ Meditation Town Hall – July 10, 2022