That everything is included within your mind is the essence of mind. To
experience this is to have religious feeling. Even though waves arise,
the essence of your mind is pure; it is just like clear water with a few
waves. Actually water always has waves. Waves are the practice of the
water. To speak of waves apart from water or water apart from waves is a
delusion. Water and waves are one. Big mind and small mind are one. When
you understand your mind in this way, you have some security in your
feeling. As your mind does not expect anything from outside, it is
always filled. A mind with waves in it is not a disturbed mind, but
actually an amplified one. Whatever you experience is an expression of
big mind.
The activity of big mind is to amplify itself through various
experiences. In one sense our experiences coming one by one are always
fresh and new, but in another sense they are nothing but a continuous or
repeated unfolding of the one big mind.
-Shunryu Suzuki, /Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind/
