At the tail end of a lovely walk on the Bob Jones Trail Saturday afternoon, I heard myself say this: “Why am I sometimes utterly sure everything goes exactly the way it’s supposed to, and sometimes I wish things were different?”
Back home I scavenged through many piles of Zen/Ch’an books of Japanese Koans (Chinese Ch’an Kung-ans) and found this:
Monk Kushyman Luis-Mountain asked the Master:
“Why am I sometimes utterly sure everything goes exactly the way it’s supposed to, and sometimes I wish things were different?”
The Master answered, “Try a pepperoni pizza and call me in the morning.”
Luis-Mountain said, “I do not understand.”
The Master responded, “The Big Dipper is big.”
At that there was an “Aha.”
Ha!! Even on a lovely Saturday I’m hanging out with this stuff.
from a mountain bench 
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