“When the demon become Buddha, you should subdue him and let him become Buddha by dealing with the demon as Buddha. When the Buddha becomes Buddha, you should intend to become Buddha and let him become Buddha by dealing with the Buddha as Buddha. When the person becomes Buddha, you should harmonize him and let him become Buddha by dealing with the person as Buddha. You should know that there is a passage to freedom the moment you deal with something as Buddha.” 

- Dogen Zenji

"If you take away any perception of the future—of becoming something, of what you will, could or should be; if you take away any perception of the past, what you always have been, never did, used to be good at—just yourself in the present without comparing it with something else, what is that?

When you take away any ideas about what other people think about you, or have said, or you hope they will say—in other words, when you drop any deflected image—what is there? When you recognize these images and put them aside, what’s left in-and-of-itself? Pure presence: here and now.

Try practising like this, pulling your focal point out of that realm where it is always shifting: the samsàra, the struggling, the tangledness, the heaviness, the complexity, the trying to find an answer to it. Keep bringing it back to ‘Who?’...

...Consciousness is activated to diffuse into this and into that, and bounce feelings and a range of thoughts and moods off an external sense-object. Thus what is established is a moment-by-moment read-out of a three-dimensional being. But it is a confused being: although we may have denied responsibility, we have missed an opportunity to acknowledge and investigate our psychological roots. We’ve lost touch.

But if you bring your attention back to investigating ‘Who?’ in the eagerness, the joyfulness, or the restlessness, when you touch in directly with experience, then where are you in that?"

Ajahn Sucitto