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<\/a><\/p>\nI remember a passage in one of the Carlos Castenada books where Carlos was going to save a turtle by moving her off the road. Don Juan wouldn\u2019t let him interfere with the turtle\u2019s life. That passage came to mind recently while riding my bike around Bald Eagle when I saw a kind man trying to help a turtle. I stopped and talked with the man. He said he was sure that the turtle wanted to get back to the side of the road he had come from.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHow do you know?\u201d I asked, thinking that if the turtle was crossing the road, how did the guy know she didn\u2019t want to do that.<\/p>\n \u201cShe wants to go back there,\u201d repeated the man.<\/p>\n Move the turtle or let the turtle cross the road and maybe get run over. And which way does the turtle want to go? What to do?<\/p>\n Like this passage from Genjokoan<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n When a person first seeks after the dharma<\/a>, the person becomes far from the boundary of the dharma. When the dharma is correctly transmitted to the self, the person is immediately the original person.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Now there is a lot of nonseeking pablum chewed up in modern Zen circles and all that comes of it is constipation and passivity \u2013 no enlightenment.<\/p>\n Above we have old man Dogen recognizing seeking and the estrangement that comes from it. But without seeking, how can that be right? Anyway, every body\u2019s looking for something so stop BS\u2019en. Sweet dreams are made of this.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n If you gotta seek, seek for dharma, seek for what\u2019s really true. In so doing, you gotta become alienated and isolated. That\u2019s the way. Turning toward and turning away both wrong. Confused. Damn. What to do?<\/p>\n Sit down. Shut up. Tolerance for the inconceivable. Be turned by the dharma when the dharma is good and ready to turn and it won\u2019t be by your timetable, buddy.<\/p>\n It\u2019s like being home and asking, \u201cIs this my home?\u201d And then investigating. \u201cResting in curiosity,\u201d as one person said here in the study group. Being willing to sit in the corner where you cannot move an inch. The terminal abode that is simultaneously the start of the journey. Katagiri liked to talk about that.<\/p>\n