As I thought about the project all of a sudden it hit me – why would we try to make Zen “practical”, make it “useable” in the “real life”?

In fact, I realized, this is what I was trying to do for nearly all my years of being a “spiritual practitioner” of one sort or another. This was actually quite a big issue for me: I would have the wonderful practice, whether it was Zen or my work with Brooks, I would grow and develop … and my life still wouldn’t work!