Dogen said: “To study the way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.”
On the effectiveness of mudras (response on Tao Bums)
When I finally sat down to write something about zazen, I wrote an essay about “the mudra of zen”. I didn’t know what I was going to say about that, but I wrote anyway. As it happens, I still use the practice I wrote about even today, six years later. And yet, it’s an oddball thing!