"Breathing in I am aware that I am breathing in, breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out.  To really live life we can touch this simple reality with deep awareness – underneath my  stories, religion, ideas and philosophy – 

I appreciate this so much,  

At the time Akegarasu Sensei began teaching he was rather revolutionary, looking for a way to take the teachings of Buddha into people’s everyday lives. His language is different, more direct, less dogmatic and more personal

Rev Akegarasu goes on to write in Shout of Buddha. 

"Besides my own living I don't need religion, philosophy, and morality.  Religion, philosophy, morality, and art and politics, are not in the world of my living beside my living. Beside my being alive there is no God or Buddha. When I die God and Buddha will also die. Look at me. 

What do you think his point is in these lines? For me it is the realization of Being Alive in the flow of now is more important the ideas of being alive – Life is more elemental, life is process, to live is a verb, it is the state of simply being.