This body, this mind
Now,
Are the gates beyond the body and mind, the path to liberation,
This body, this mind,
Not-now,
Are the gates of suffering
Here it is, the confinement, hell.
To truly inhabit this body-mind
Is to leave this body-mind
Dogen’s Shinjin datsuraku
To seek something other than this body-mind-now, is to ensure that one never goes beyond.
Something other than this body-mind-now: ideas, concepts about spirituality,
The “what-one-does-when-one-is-not-in-practice”, the “what-spirituality-is”
Notes & Silence 
This strikes me as a plea to have a proper foundation, a valid springboard, from which to dream, rather than seeking to make one’s dreams that foundation.
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This body-mind, now
is all we have
to work with
to work from
this is so easy to forget and slide in the illusions of not-now
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