Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘When we sit down to practice meditation, something interesting happens. Most of us see lots of thoughts come and go: we think about what’s on the agenda for the day, we recall the lovely food we had last night, we wonder how soon the bell will ring so we can stand up and get our sleepy leg to wake up.

Then perhaps we get annoyed at all these thoughts.

We want to be just sitting, but instead here we are sitting and thinking. But this is just sitting; thoughts are not separate from just sitting, because just sitting is the state of not-separateness from anything that is always here whether we know it or not. If we make a serious commitment to just sitting we may realize this not-separateness, but it’s nice to remember that it’s always realizing itself anyway.’ (Inside the Grass Hut)