Koan

The best season

In spring, hundreds of flowers. In autumn, the moon. In summer, a cool breeze. In winter, snow. If your mind is not clouded by useless things, this is the best season of your life.

Wumen Huikai, The Gateless Gate, case 19

How to sit with it

Name one good thing about this exact season, where you are.

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.

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