Roshi Bernie Glassman

“Delusion and enlightenment are both going on at the same time. They’re two sides of the same coin. Whatever you do is a reflection of the degree to which you are enlightened. You’re going to pick up the person who falls in the street because you know that person is you. You’re not going to say, I’ve fallen, too bad, and walk on. So your degree of enlightenment will define what you do. And as you do things, new shit will come to light, you’ll be at a new stage of enlightenment, and new practices will be appropriate. So maybe right now you only pick up the person falling down in your street but not someone falling somewhere else, because that person is not your neighbor. Time goes by, new shit comes to light, and you now see that you are not just your neighbor, you are also any person who falls down in the street. You’re at a new stage of enlightenment, so your practices and actions will be different.”(The Dude and the Zen Master)