Tozan’s Five Seasons: Five—The Ash Heap is Perfect

The fifth season invites us to be disillusioned in the most beautiful way. We realize there is nothing special, and yet everything is sacred. To use the bicycle image, here’s where the bicycle is put down; we know how to use it and can ride it again. We’ve come full circle, with no attachment to any insight. As we sit in zazen, we explore the edges of emptiness. How many things are burned up in a lifetime of practice?