"The other day I was walking along the river. The wind
was blowing. Suddenly I thought, Oh! The air really exists. We know
that the air is there, but unless the wind blows against our face, we
are not aware of it. Here in the wind I was suddenly aware, yet it's
really there. And the sun too. I was suddenly aware of the sun, shining
through the fare trees. Its warm, its brightness, and all this
completely free, completely gratuitous. Simply there for us to enjoy.
And without my knowing it, completely spontaneously, my two hands came
together, and I realized that I was making a deep and reverent bow. And
it occurred to me that this is all that matters: that we can bow, take a
deep bow. Just that. Just that." ---Rev. Eido Tai Shimano