2016 Rohatsu Sesshin by Reb Anderson: Day 3 (2016/05/20)

Brooklyn Zen Center

The beings who have this wish and commitment - to realize perfect understanding for the welfare of all beings - when those beings enter into Samadhi, their vow goes with them. So in that sense, the Bodhisattva Samadhi (or what I would call zazen) - I consider the zazen that I am recommending and encouraging is Bodhisattva Samadhi. And that Bodhisattva Samadhi, that zazen, is a vow. It's an open, relaxed, buoyant, undistracted vow: to gather the entire ocean of Buddha’s teachings, for the welfare of all beings.