The Zen path of practice and enlightenment

Good friends, all of the great masters urged their hearers to illumine the teachings of sages and actualize the wisdom of reality through observation meditation. Having awakened to the innate function of nonthinking through the realization of cessation, we can now apply ourselves to observation.

Observation meditation consists of observing the sacred teachings as well as the everyday world of sensation, perception, mental formulation, and consciousness seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and thinking through and with the enlightened awareness of nonthinking. This is taking up and letting go without the notions of ‘taking up' and ‘letting go.' The Zen path of practice and enlightenment is the continuous and ongoing practice and enlightenment beyond all ideas and concepts of practice and enlightenment.

~The Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing