Jokai Blackwell on "Just As You Are"

What a marvel. This is a marvelous appearance ... that there is ground underneath our feet, that there is a sky above. Although in saying that, in 2020 ... we don't know. We could get some meteors that even shake that up. ...

This way, this presence, just is. Always, always is. And if we become very still, if we really look ... then we really begin to see that nothing changes. ... Intrinsically, something doesn't change. But in appearance, the forms change. ...

Buddhist practice, it's not all skipping through the tulips, right? It's not that way. When we really come up against the reality of this life, then we really have to grow up about ourselves and take full responsibility for who we are and how we appear. And if we can be truly open and truly vulnerable, be awake and aware, there's nothing of value there. It's common to everybody. ... Taken as a whole, it is an extraordinary thing. But the appearance of the extraordinary shows up in the ordinary.