Italo Calvino wrote that “the inferno of the living is where we live every day, that we form by being together.” How do we not be consumed by it?

In Zen, our practice is to return, over and over again, to our sensory experience. To be with what is happening without adding anything to it, resisting it, or avoiding it. In this way, we can connect with our fundamental aliveness, our true nature, which is so much bigger than we think.

When we feel overwhelmed, our senses are always here to help us remember who we truly are.