Nothing special

Just be ordinary, nothing special. Relieve yourself, put on your clothes, eat your food, and lie down when you are tired.

Linji, The Record of Linji

How to sit with it

Do one ordinary thing today without trying to make it special.

Read it once more, slowly. Then sit for two minutes and let it stay in the background. There is nothing to solve. New to this? Read what a koan is.