Abandon

One thing I hope you all do is devote yourself to this practice with love, with a wild abandon and passion.  You need that love to really be able to fly.  Love for the practice, love for each other, love for yourself, love for your teacher.
As Maezumi Roshi always said, “appreciate your life!”  And I hope you appreciate it with a burning, fiery love.  Really let go into your life and really appreciate it.  Cultivate a certain potency, a loving warriorship, and choose a path with heart.
Fling yourself into the practice, into your life.  This is physical and it’s emotional.  Let go of your inner critic.  Be like the Sufis described a Man of God:  he’s like a moth.  He knows the flame will destroy him, will burn his ego to ashes, but he goes straight for it–because he has no choice.
You’re just passing through.  If you abandon yourself to the practice, to appreciating your life with real gusto, you’ll never look back and regret it.