Much love and gratitude to all, want to share some thoughts after meditating a lot and reading some of Peter Matthiessen’s book ‘Nine Headed Dragon River’. I think that all of existence is something t... View MoreMuch love and gratitude to all, want to share some thoughts after meditating a lot and reading some of Peter Matthiessen’s book ‘Nine Headed Dragon River’. I think that all of existence is something that we can enlighten ourselves with if we so choose. Nakagawa Soen-roshi elaborated: “the sun is shining, the sun is always shining! The sun is enlightenment! Everything is enlightenment!” He dabbles his finger in a water bowl, “do you hear that? That is enlightenment!” He reads his haiku: “in the midst of winter, I find in myself at last, invincible summer.”