Zen is one long inquiry into how to live a truly full life

"Zen is one long inquiry into how to live a truly full life. Life is universal, yet we feel separate from it and from each other. Taking what we need, discarding and preserving, enjoying and suffering, our life seems to be all about us. Uchiyama looks at what a person is, what a self is, how to develop a true self not separate from all things, one that can settle in peace in the midst of life."

Preface to Opening the Hand of Thought by Zosho Uchiyama