Been a bit since I wrote... getting ready for my job. Today I start... in just a few hours. The challenge begins.

"The Buddha is your own Mind, make no mistake to bow [to external objects]. "Buddha is a Western word, and this country it means "enlightened nature;" and by "enlightened" is meant "spiritually enlightened." It is one's own own spiritual Nature in enlightenment that responds to the external world, comes in contact with objects, raises the eyebrows, winks the eyelids, and moves the hands and legs. This Nature is the Mind, and the Mind is Buddha, and the Buddha is the Way, and the Way is Zen. This simple word, Zen, is the beyond the comprehension both of the wise and the ignorant. To see directly into one's own Nature, this is Zen. Even if you are well learned in hundreds of Sutras and Sastras, you still remain an ignoramus in Buddhism when you have not yet seen into your original Nature. Buddhism is not there. The highest truth is unfathomably deep, is not an object of talk or discussion, and even the canonical texts have no way to bring it within our reach. Let us once see into our own original Nature and we have the truth, even when we are quite illiterate, not knowing a word..."
- from the essay on Satori in D.T. Suzuki's Essays in Zen Buddhism