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they call it 'FU-SHO'. FU-SHO means 'unproduced'. You cannot produce it, you cannot do anything to bring it. You have to be passive, in a state of non-doing -- then it comes. Then it comes suddenly, from nowhere, from the blue. And in that coming, in that shower of silence and stillness, is the transformation. It is nothing special, Zen people say. How can it be special? It is everybody's nature, so how can it be special? It is utterly ordinary, everybody has it. You may know, you may not know -- that is a different thing -- but you have it. Not for a single moment have you missed it. Not for a single moment has it been taken away from you. It has been there, lying and lying and waiting for you to come back home.
Another word Zen people use for meditation is 'WU-SHI'. It means 'nothing special' or 'no fuss'.
Now this song of Hakuin.
ALL BEINGS ARE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING BUDDHAS.
This one sentence is enough. It is the beginning and the middle and the end. It is all. The alpha and the omega.
ALL BEINGS ARE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING BUDDHAS.
You are Buddhas. Never for a single moment have you been otherwise. You CANNOT. You cannot really go away from your Buddhahood, you can only dream. You can only dream that you have gone away, but while dreaming you will still remain here now. This is impossible, to lose your Buddhahood, because God is involved in every thing and every being. And when Hakuin says, 'All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas,' don't think that he is talking only of human beings. Animals are included, so are included the birds and the trees and the rocks. All that is, is included.
The English word 'being' comes from a Sanskrit root 'BHU'. BHU means 'that which grows'. All that grows is God. The trees grow, the birds grow, the rocks grow. All that grows is God. And everything grows in its own pace. Remember, the root of 'being', the word 'being', is BHU. It simply means that which breathes, that which grows, that which has life -- howsoever rudimentary, howsoever primitive. All is included.
ALL BEINGS ARE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING BUDDHAS.
And what is the meaning of a Buddha? 'Buddha'
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