Monday Night Zazen

Master Sozan once asked a monk, "How is it when the dharma body of reality is manifesting form in accordance with beings, like the moon reflected in the water?"

The monk said, "It's like a donkey looking at a well."

Sozan said, "You have said quite a lot, but you have only said eighty percent of it."

The monk then asked, "What do you say, teacher?"

Sozan answered, "It's like the well looking at the donkey."

It is not only a well looking at a donkey; it is the well looking at the well, the donkey looking at the donkey, a human being looking at a human being, and a mountain looking at a mountain.