(BENDOWA XVIII)
In other words …
In a moment of sitting Zazen, you and all things of the universe are no less than the Buddha sitting Zazen under the Bodhi Tree, attaining realization and commencing to teach (the meaning of “turn the Dharma Wheel“), expounding and expressing the profound state of Prajna.
(Prajna is a wonderful term that means Buddhist wisdom, understanding, discernment … grasping the heart of the Buddha’s teachings and ending suffering.)
In other words …
If one sees Zazen, not merely as our trying to be a Buddha someday, but as the Buddha himself acting perfectly Buddha-like right there … and if you see the very sitting of Zazen as making all the world right, and just the way it should be … if if you see Zazen as the Buddha’s wisdom made real …
When one displays the buddhamudra with one's whole body and mind, sitting upright in this samadhi even fora short time, everything in the entire dharma world becomes buddha mudra, andall space in the universe completely becomes enlightenment. Therefore, itenables buddha-tathagatas to increase the dharma joy of their own originalgrounds and renew the adornment of the way of awakening. Simultaneously, allliving beings of the dharma world in the ten directions and six realms becomeclear and pure in body and mind, realize great emancipation, and their ownoriginal face appears. At that time, all things together awaken to supremeenlightenment and utilize the buddha-body, immediately go beyond the culminationof awakening, and sit upright under the kingly bodhi tree. At the same time,they turn the incomparable, great dharma wheel and begin expressing ultimateand unfabricated profound prajna.
From: Talk on the Wholehearted Practice of the Way -Kosho Uchiyama (with Shohaku Okumura, Taigen Daniel Leighton)
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