A 21 Day Grace Period: Day 13

From today's Daily Dharma:

Seung Sahn would say, "When you eat, just eat. When you read the newspaper, just read the newspaper. Don't do anything other than what you are doing."

One day a student saw him reading the newspaper while he was eating. The student asked if this did not contradict his teaching. Seung Sahn said, "When you eat and read the newspaper, just eat and read the newspaper."

–From Essential Zen, edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Tensho David Schneider (HarperSanFrancisco)

I read this in the morning and realized that there was really nothing I could say about my practice except that I did it. Will I have anything to say for the next eight days? Probably.

Photo: Julie Zikefoose