“Zen practice isn’t about a special place or a special peace, or something other than being with our life just as it is. It’s one of the hardest things for people to get: that my very difficulties in this very moment are the perfection.”

-Charlotte Joko Beck

Blue Cliff Record Case #15: Unmon’s Preaching in the Reverse
A monk asked Unmon, “What is it that’s not the function of the mind in me nor a thing before me?”
Unmon said, “Preaching in the reverse.”