when I speak of “I,” I really mean “You.
This book is handwritten because, in its way, it is a love letter, and love letters should not be type—set by compositors or computers. It may be a little slower to read, but there is no hurry, for what I want to share with you took a long time to experience.
I write in the first-person singular, but when I speak of “I,” I really mean “You.”
“Deeply thinking about it,
I and other people,
There is no difference
As there is no mind
Beyond the Mind.”
—Ikkyu (fifteenth century)
—From the Foreward to Frederick Franck’s “The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation.”
