Prompted by a student talk that touched on caring for the dying, Nyogen Roshi discusses the urgency of cultivating samadhi by “doing non-doing.” If we ignore or trivialize this imperative, we contribute to the pain and suffering around us. But if we engage in the hard work of Zen practice, we transform ourselves and our world. “You have to push through the barrier of duality,” Roshi says. “And then you begin to experience the most amazing occurrences. But it’s quite ordinary–very ordinary, see?”
