The Last Waves of Rohatsu

Seido reflects on Rohatsu sesshin by exploring the ocean as a metaphor for suchness or thusness. We are part of the ocean—whether riding the surface waves when we are tossed around by life or walking on the ocean floor when we rest in samadhi. Dogen’s insight is that we are already people of suchness. What we seek is what we already are. We are the ocean.