July 23, 2024 – A

"I don't think that's going anywhere,"
could be said about everything.
Along with it's corollary,
"Where do you think you're going?"
And,
"What do you think you're doing?"

These are all statements
that could be at the heart of Zen.

Along with the following:

"Those who say, don't know.
Those who know, don't say."

"The Tao that can be told/explained/said
is not the eternal Tao."

A Zen master and a novice were walking across a bridge
when the novice asked, "What is Zen?"
Whereupon the master picked him up 
and threw him into the river below, saying,
"That is water!
swim in it,
bathe in it,
drink it,
or drown--
but do not talk about it!
To talk about water is to not know water!"

Those of us who know what we are doing,
know that we don't know what we are doing,
and sit in the emptiness, stillness, silence,
waiting for the mud to settle 
and the water to clear, 
so that our intrinsic intuition
might guide us into doing what needs to be done,
where, when and how,
and then we drop back into the emptiness, etc.
for another round,
and so on,
for as long as life shall last.