Tokudo is to bring one to the other shore, or to reach the other shore. That is the same as "paramita". Actually where one is is the other shore, but our recog- nition is as if we go from this shore to the other shore. So for helping this recognition this ceremony is held. The other shore means the world of Buddhas.
He or she pushes the door open from the other side, and with the same action I open the door from inside. He pushes and I pull.
This wasn't always a formal ceremony. Buddha just said "come". With only one word Buddha made it possible for people to be in the Buddhist order, so basically everyone in our sangha is already inside of the Buddha's world, you are since you started meditating. Some people may have no sense of this. For some people, to do meditation, that is all, and during their whole life they have no sense of belonging to any religion. But you can be in truth without having any recognition of it. Trees and plants exist in that way.
Jukai means the transmission of the Precepts, which is one of the internal room teachings. This in- ternal teaching has some sense of secret teaching unless you see that it has never been shown, even if it's exposed, if you are blind to it.
Some of you are ordained. It is a little myster- ious thing. I don't really know what you think of it. I hope you understand that in order to meet with the real tradition which doesn't come from behind us, but from the future; you have to wipe off all concepts which stick out in front of you limiting your view. I didn't introduce you in order for you to slip into the past. I wanted you to be yourself and be nothing-- no belonging to anything. So you don't need to say, "I am Buddhist", and yet you must understand what Buddha is, not the past Buddha but what the Buddha of the present is.