A Gift of Dharma for 4.20.10
by Danny Fisher
Today’s quote is from Dainin Katagiri Roshi (1928-1990), who was a Soto Zen priest and founder of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, where he served as abbot from 1972 until his death in 1990. This is it:
When you really want to know who you are or what the real significance of human life, human suffering is, very naturally you come back to silence, even though you don’t want to, you return to an area of no-sound. It cannot be explained, but in this silence you can realize, even if only dimly, what the real point is that you want to know. Whatever kind of question you ask or whatever you think, finally you have to return to silence. This silence is vast; you don’t know what it is.
