Wow and Not-Wow: Same One Nature

More freezing rain and then snow here in Minnesota. The above shot from the last snowfall – always a heartbeat behind the ball.

Reminds me of how Katagiri Roshi loved to tell a story of driving in the Superior National Forest, coming around a corner, and suddenly being face-to-face with a moose in the road. Well, face-to-face through the windows of this old Malibu. Anyway, point was the “ground word,” the first thought. “Wow!” 

First thought is also what I heard one of my co-workers mutter as she got out of her car this morning: “Another fucking day!”

Both expression have exactly the same arising-from-emptiness nature … and yet quite a difference, eh?