In a powerful and wide-ranging talk, Nyogen Roshi touches on quantum physics and the delusion of understanding; how to listen to a talk; the importance of knowing how to die well; and how his last dokusan with Maezumi Roshi, his teacher, illuminates an exchange between Obaku and Rinzai (and vice versa). But the most basic teaching he wants to convey to his listener: “You are the Supreme Way, you are a Buddha trying to wake up, you are this conscience awareness that cutting-edge science talks about.”