The Way is perfect like unto vast space,With nothing wanting, nothing superfluous.
— Sosan Ganchi Zenji
It is indeed due to making choices that its suchness is lost sight of.
This passage is the 3rd in On Believing in Mind by Sosan Ganchi Zenji. This passage reminds me of looking for a lost object to the point of frustration; and then, upon giving up the search, the lost object magically appears.
Sosan’s passage resonates with this experience in an interesting way. Note that Sosan does not say the Way is perfect like vast space. Instead, he says the Way is perfect like unto vast space implying an action, a process, or movement with respect to vast space.
So what does this have to do with looking for a lost object only for it to be revealed upon abandoning the search? And more so, what does this have to do with Zazen meditation?
Life can be frustrating and unsettling if we seek the Truth outside ourselves. Zazen invites us to abandon everything with our breath- our thoughts, our feelings, our physical pain, even our own life!
And as we enter this path with total trust, can we begin to sense what magically reveals itself?