It’s a common human tendency to overthink, to have and hold onto opinions, to seek meaning, to categorize and analyze. Our brains do what brains do. And ideas and concepts are very enticing. They can also be useful, at times. Our practice is to hold them lightly — to not identify with our thoughts or to get too caught up with them. To keep it simple.

In his book, “Seeing One Thing Through,” the late Roshi Sojun Mel Weitsman remind us that "the practice of zazen is just 'to be’… If you can settle on just being, you can experience your completeness.”

How simple. We have all we need to practice being who we are.