Ordinary mind
Zen teachers have long tutored their students that zen meditation is nothing special. One of the core zen sayings is that zen mind is ordinary mind. Zen meditation at its deepest is no less possible or productive sitting in nature, on a train, or in a meeting. The process has nothing to do with trying to create a specific experience out of the ordinary, but instead being one with, at peace with, not fighting with, simply being present to our experience - whatever it is, wherever it is.
Not only it is not an escape from one’s life, it is a fuller oneness with it. That’s why cleaning up the dog’s yard is as sacred a meditation practice as sitting on a cushion in a quiet sanctuary.
