The only way is to enjoy your life. Even though you are practicing zazen, counting your breath like a snail, you can enjoy your life, perhaps even more than taking a trip to the moon. That is why we practice zazen. The most important thing is to be able to enjoy your life without being fooled by things.
Shunryu Suzuki, from Not Always So, an inquiry into the depths of Zen, his companion volume to Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind. He literally meant “taking a trip to the moon”, giving the speech on July 20, 1969, the day Apollo 11 made headlines by landing on the moon.
