Upon the anniversary of Maezumi Roshi’s death, Gyodo Sensei reflects on Maezumi's dedication and openness in establishing Zen practice in the West. This openness is essential.

We often look at our life as an observer, with preferences and judgments and resistances. But our life is not outside of us. When we feel what we are feeling, without any sense of a separate self, we experience our life from the inside. We become open to everything, just as it is.

Going even deeper, we become openness itself. There is nothing that is outside. Everything is inside. In this way, no joy, no sadness, no grief, no burdens are too big.