Abstract:

Volume 26 of the Mountain Light Video Library, Everyone's Light. The ancient Chinese Zen poem, Identity of Relative and Absolute, declares, "Within light there is darkness, but do not try to understand that darkness. Within darkness there is light but do not look for that light." John Daido Loori, Roshi takes up this central teaching of Mahayana Buddhism - that form is precisely emptiness - and makes it very personal. Master Yun-men said, "Everyone has a light." Each one of us is a perfect Buddha. How do we realize that perfection not as a philosophical abstraction but as the activity of our lives: preparing breakfast, driving to the office at the peak of rush hour, taking care of the Earth?