While we are stuck in the house due to weather lets think about something that makes us feel good instead of thinking about colon cleansing weight loss that might be needed to do! Sometimes we need a break away of something that is away from those serious thoughts!

Studying Zen, learning the way, is originally for the sake of birth and death, no other thing. What do I mean by other things? Arousing the mind and stirring thoughts right now; having contrivance and artificiality; having grasping and rejecting; having practice and realization; having purity and defilement; having sacred and profane; having Buddhas and sentient beings; writing verses and songs, composing poems and odes; discoursing on Zen and the way; discoursing on right and wrong; discoursing on past and present. These various activities are not relevant to the issue of birth and death; they are all other things.

- Chien-ju