In the dead of night recently, I sought the company of my late teacher, Robert Aitken, Roshi, and read through his essay, “The Experience of Emptiness” from his book Original Dwelling Place: Zen Buddhist Essays. On page 155, halfway through, we were suddenly rubbing...
We are evolving creatures caught in transition between worlds. Behind us in fragments is a universe of isolated entities where objectivity requires the sentient observer to absent herself from the world and separate mind from body, human from the natural world, self...
