Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.