Koans of the Way of Reality: Yaoshan's Zen
It is a constant practice to not get stuck in the language or forms of Zen training. The precepts, wisdom, higher states of meditation—these are all concepts that need to be let go of. It can become all too easy to turn our Zen practice into a nest, a workshop, a medicine cabinet or a make-up kit. True realization is traceless: it has nothing to do with our ideas about it. Even at the top of a hundred-foot pole, there’s nowhere else to go but forward.