Practicing Enlightenment

That’s what we’re doing when we sit in 

Buddhist meditation.

When we sit simply in an upright posture 

without distraction, as Suzuki Roshi said,

that in itself is enlightenment.

We don’t see it because our minds are 

full of confusion, but, over time as we sit,

confusion clarifies to the point where our minds

are no different in essence to the crystal ball

that sits on the shrine.

Like morning clouds hiding a mountain, as the

sun shines the clouds evaporate and the mountain

is revealed.

As we meditate, the sun of awareness shines on

our cloudy minds, the clouds of confusion dissipate,

and the mountain of enlightened mind is revealed.

For the I Ching,

clouds are not a thing.