Driven

Friend: You haven’t talked much about Zen lately. Are you still reading your books about it?

Sue: Not since I stayed at the San Francisco Zen Center. It rather put me off. But I still like the ideas – acceptance, going with the flow, being immersed in the moment.

Friend: It’s so odd that you should be attracted to it. You’re the least Zen person I know.

But I think of learning to walk on my slackline as a kind of meditation, or maybe it’s my practice.

(One day I will get to grips with Zen. If someone reading this can explain “practice” to me, I would be very pleased.)