What does Dongshan teach?
The dark way, the bird path, and the open hand.
At the edge of the sea, the rumble and roll of the waters pull on some deep memory of our
first, floating home, when we were diaphanous, barely matter, aeons before the empires of
thought and industry were built upon the land. Wind pours through the coastal forest, joining the boom
of the waves, and the world is a unity of impersonal and completely consoling roar.
(Bodhi Day, December 2018)