„Consider the sunlight. You may say it is near, yet if you follow it from world to world you will never catch it in your hands.

Then you may describe it as far away and, lo, you will see it just before your eyes.

Follow it and, behold, it escapes you; run from it and it follows you close.

You can neither possess it nor have done with it. From this example you can understand how it is with the true Nature of all things…“

— Huang Po

Zen practice means keeping a mind that’s clear like a mirror.
Whatever appears in front of this mirror is reflected completely, as it is, without being distorted by our thinking.
From moment to moment, we let everything go and approach life with open hands—having nothing to lose.
If you think you understand, you are already deluded.
If you let go of your understanding, the True Way already appeared.