Here is a short article on sitting Zazen that came across the wire on one of the Zen lists I belong to that was a really good "kick in the ass" for me today:

Aspects of Sitting

"I'd like to reveal the natural nature of sitting fully as it is. If I put some concept on this, and make you understand what I think is an ideal way to sit, I would be a kind of special gardener who fixes boxes and lets you go through to become square bamboo. Or I would be an automatic newspaper man who runs a newspaper - whoever comes, I would just put you in the machine and make you flat, and you would come out a squished being, or something like this!

"Too much talk about zazen, or shi-kan-taza is not so good for you. It's impossible to teach the meaning of sitting. Until you really experience and confirm it by yourself, you cannot believe it. It has tremendous depth, and year after year this gorgeous world of shi-kan- taza appears. It's up to you to cultivate it. Because you are Buddhas yourselves, you can sit. Dogen named this sitting "Great Gate of Peace and Joy". Simply, it is peaceful, eternally peaceful, pleasurable and joyful. Shi-kan-taza doesn't have the name of any religion, but it is, in its quality, a very true religious way to live."

~ Kobun Chino Roshi

My take away for today: "John, please, put down your fears, resentments and sadness surrounding the demise of your marriage and JUST SIT!"