Personal Remarks about Zazen
I am a 40-year practitioner of zazen. One might think that after all this time, I would find zazen uninteresting and routine. However, the reverse is true.
For one thing, for me each zazen session is very different from another. Following my breathing is the same as watching streams of energy as they flow through my body. No session is the same respective to the course and direction of this streaming. Each session is unique.
Another aspect of my own practice is that during it, I get in touch with a source of great power. In Zen, this power has various names, such as Original Mind, the Absolute, Buddhadharma, and so on. But names are one thing, reality another. The reality, to me, is that this power is mysterious and incomprehensible. It fills me with a sense of sufficiency, adequacy, and contentment.
I have reverence for zazen and consider it a holy practice.