being Buddha, being dazzled, perfectly flawed blossoms

"A clay Buddha cannot cross water.
           A bronze Buddha cannot get through a furnace.
                           A wooden Buddha cannot get through fire." - Master Joshu

"One kind of Buddha will not serve your purpose completely, you will have to throw it away sometime, or at least ignore it. But if you understand the secret of our practice, wherever you go, you yourself are 'boss'. No matter what the situation, you cannot neglect Buddha, because you yourself are Buddha. Only this Buddha will help you completely."
- Suzuki Roshi

"Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled -
to cast aside the weight of facts

     and maybe even
     to float a little
     above this difficult world.
     I want to believe I am looking

          into the white fire of a great mystery.
          I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing -
          that the light is everything - that it is more than the sum
          of each flawed blossom rising and fading.  And I do."

               -Mary Oliver