Purify Your Heart

When I was living at Dai Bosatsu Zendo, Eido Roshi would sometimes say, "Purify your heart." Other times he would say, "Purify your being." How do we do this? What does this really mean? Practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, every moment of every day and we will eventually find out.

Instead of talking about our beliefs, it's about how do we live up to them. Another time as we sat in the Dharma Hall, Eido Roshi stated, "If you cannot enter the village with helping hands, I say stop practicing Zen all-together, because you are wasting your time." If all being is fundamentally Buddha (awakened), there can be no gaps, no separation. Why hold back and try to keep it for ourselves? Purify your heart, breath after breath.

Gassho,

Jaye Morris, Curator
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