Dreaming in the Void blog | Other sounds
“If what our reality is is not the same as what our appearance is, then we're not yet practising. That who we really are, and what we appear to be should be the same. If it's not, it's deluded, it's mixed up, it's a mask, it's where we hide. And somehow a lot of that as to do with not being satisfied with who we are. Somehow being convinced by somewhere, somehow, sometime, that we're inadequate, that we don't quite make it. So we try to be something else, we try to be what they think we should be, or what our parents think we should be, or what our government thinks we should be, or what our profession or job thinks we should be. So we need to get to that place of who we really are and trust it. There’s nothing to hide, and it’s not necessary to hide. And there’s not a single one of us that falls short of our own completeness. And if you really understand that, trust that, then the charade is over.”
John Daido Loori of Zen Mountain Monastery
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85FA0Ao9LDw
