" When you’re alive there’s nothing but life. When you die there’s nothing but death. So when life comes, be alive. When death comes, die. You don’t need to dodge either one, and you don’t need to long for either one. "

― Brad Warner , It Came from Beyond Zen!: More Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master -- Vol. 2 of a Radical But Reverent Paraphrasing of Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye