Ordinary

I take the first teaching of Zen to be what we discover for ourselves when we sit quietly and still:  our own busy minds.  The second teaching is what wells up inside, this question: "How do I quiet my mind?"  Third, is finding that we can’t avoid or suppress our minds, our suffering, without adding to the turmoil.  This, after all, is the first ‘noble truth.’   It doesn’t work to hide from difficulty.  Finally, to go through difficulty is to discover the relative nature of all objects of attention, coming and going, like breath.  And like breath, this ‘coming and going’  is ordinary, just what we do; like walking, one foot after another,  on a path.     

Gendo