Robert Aitken Roshi (1917-2010)

When people write to me from a place where there are no Zen centers and where it is impossible to find even a single Zen friend, I advise them, "Just sit with the awareness that you are sitting with us in the Diamond Sangha. Just sit with the awareness that you are sitting with everyone and every being in the whole universe, past, present, and future." (Robert Aitken Roshi, quoted by Barbara O'Brien in About Buddhism)