Life - Zen O Zen - Part 6
The first part of our zen practice is as if we were in the middle of a confused, busy street; we can hardly find an empty place and the traffic is going every which way. It's confusing and frightening. And that's the way our life feels to most of us. We're so busy jumping out of the way of what's coming toward us that we can't understand our own entrapment in the traffic. But if we watch it for a while we begin to see that there are holes in the traffic here and there. We might even step up on the sidewalk and begin to take a more objective look. And no matter how busy the traffic, here and there, we begin to notice clear areas. Now our third step might be to go into a tall building and climb up onto the third-floor balcony and observe the traffic from there. Now it looks different; we can see the direction of it, which way it's moving. We see that in a way it doesn't have anything to do with us, it's just going on. If we climb higher and hi...