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Here\u2019s an excerpt from an essay by Katagiri Roshi originally published in Japanese in 1978 and then translated into English and published in 2001 as a part of Nothing is Hidden: Zen Master Dogen\u2019s Instructions for the Cook<\/i><\/a> (buy now \u2013 17 used from $6.95!).\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0<\/i> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is no fixed form for engaging the way. It is about how to live intimately with things. However, this \u201chow to\u201d is not a question. Questions require our discriminating mind, but this \u201chow to\u201d means that we are in the process of living, for which there is no fixed form. We are just in the process of living in the best way here and now, together with all things, with the true mind, the sincere mind, and purity. When we try to explain this and ask questions about it, only \u201chow?\u201d remains. And this interrogative itself is nothing but the vibrant activity of invigorated life.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n