The Intelligence of Being

I’m 69 years old today.

“To have received a human life is a rare event, difficult to encounter, difficult to receive. To hear the true Dharma is also difficult, so we must give all our effort, as if extinguishing a fire enveloping our head.”

—Dogen, from “The Heart of Dogen’s Shobogenzo,” as translated by Norman Waddell and Masao Abe.