ALL BUDDHA-TATHAGATAS TOGETHERhave been simply transmitting wondrous dharma and actualizing anuttara samjaksambodhi [supreme perfect enlightenment] for which there is an unsurpassable,unfabricated, wondrous method. This wondrous dharma, which has been transmittedonly from buddha to buddha without deviation, has as its criterion jijuyuzanmai. For disporting oneself freely in this samadhi, practicing zazen in anupright posture is the true gate.

Although this dharma is abundantly inherent in eachperson, it is not manifested without practice, it is not attained withoutrealization.

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

When the buddha-tathagatas each having received theone-to-one transmission of the splendid Dharma, experience the supreme state ofbodhi, they possess a subtle method that is supreme and without intention. Thereason this [method] is transmitted only from buddha to buddha, without deviation,is that the samadhi of receiving and using the self is its standard. Forenjoyment of this samadhi the practice of [Za]zen in the erect sitting posture,has been established as the authentic gate.

This Dharma is abundantly present in each human being,but if we do not practice it, it does not manifest itself, and if we do notexperience it, it cannot be realized.