As Nyogen Roshi reminds us, the notion of belief always carries with it the shadow of doubt. It also implies a host of intellectual assumptions that only serves to obscure the pure state of being that we’re working to realize in our practice. “We cannot simply think ourselves into this state of samadhi,” Roshi says. “And so long as you think there is something outside of your awareness, you’re in delusion. You have to keep swimming into the light–here, now.”
