‘You should step back and investigate. How do you step back? It is not a matter of sitting there ignoring everything, stiffly repressing body and mind so that they are like earth or wood – that will never do any good. When you want to step back, if there are any sayings you do not understand, or any stories you do not comprehend, they are then right before you. Step back and see for yourself why you do not understand.’ (Quoted in Zen Essence)
Have you investigated this? Do you understand?
Shundo David Haye 