Soko Morinaga

“Awakening to your own original face – “enlightenment’” – does not mean being able to explain yourself or the source of yourself. Enlightenment is liberation from the dross of learning and experience that, without one’s being aware of it, has accumulated and settled like so much sediment – or like cholesterol into one’s arteries! It is the vivid lively manifestation of the heart with which one is born – the heart that is no-form, no-mind, nonabiding, attached neither to form nor to thought, but in dynamic motion. Consequently, enlightenment is not an end point, but rather a starting point.”