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When you let go, the dharmafills your hands; it is not within the boundary of one or many. When you try tospeak, it fills your mouth; it is not limited to vertical or horizontal.Buddhas continuously dwell in and maintain this dharma, yet no trace ofconceptualization remains. Living beings constantly function in and use thisdharrna, yet it does not appear in their perception. The wholehearted practice of the Way that I am talking about allows all thingsto exist in enlightenment and enables us to live out oneness in the path ofemancipation. When we break through the barrier and drop off all limitations,we are no longer concerned with conceptual distinctions….

From: Talk on the Wholehearted Practice of the Way -Kosho Uchiyama (with Shohaku Okumura, Taigen Daniel Leighton)

When we let go, it has already filled the hands; howcould it be defined as one or many? When we speak, it fills the mouth; it hasno restriction in any direction. When buddhas are constantly dwelling in andmaintaining this state, they do not leave recognitions and perceptions inseparate aspects [of reality]; and when living beings are eternally functioningin this state, aspects [of reality] do not appear to them in separate recognitionsand perceptions.’ The effort in pursuing the truth⁶ that I am now teaching makes the myriad dharmas⁷ real in experience; it enacts the oneness of realityon the path of liberation. At that moment of clearing barriers and gettingfree, how could this paragraph be relevant? From: Bendowa – A Talk about Pursuing the Truth  – Nishijima-Cross