Zen Is Eternal Life
by P.T.N.H. Jiyu-Kennett
Shasta Abbey, Mt. Shasta, California, 1999. 353 pages
"These three, Compassion, Love, Wisdom, are like three great drums which, although silent, nevertheless thunder across the world when our whole being expresses them. These three are the keys to the gateless gate of true freedom and it is only we ourselves that prevent us from unlocking it for it was, in fact, never locked. It is only that we, by clinging to our ideas of right and wrong, good and evil, likes and dislikes, prejudices and concepts, in other words, by making choices, have created clouds to hide the brightness of the moon of our True Self. When we sweep all these likes, dislikes, prejudices and ideas, et cetera, away, we discover that the moon had never ceased shining. That which prevented us from seeing it was our belief that we were right in our attachment to opinions and that everyone else was wrong." (pp. 23-24)
-- quote submitted by Wesley L.
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