One Blade of Grass

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And here's an extract from Henry Shukman's autobiographical book, 'One Blade of Grass' :

'All I had really wanted, all along, was to be taught to love this world, and now I had. Even if there were another, better world, I didn't want it. Zen opened an unknown wellspring that gushed like the watch fire of love, the Roman candle in the heart I first tasted many years ago on the beach in South America: a fount of love that never ceased welling up. As Juan de la Cruz said in the sixteenth century:

'How well I know that fountain which gushes and flows

though it be in the dark of night.

After which there is nothing to do but share and serve.

In the end it's all a fairy tale. In the end, all Zen saves us from is ourselves. It may be a little inaccurate but not unreasonable to say that in the end, all Zen is is love.' (p.322)