It's so easy to get lost in the whirl of confusing messages, thoughts, and beliefs. There's no end to the different ways we get stuck or lost not knowing what is or isn't so. However, Zen practice comes to put an end to this. As we stay with the simple facts of our lives, pay attention to them, and live them, we leave the ever twirling pitfalls of the thinking mind. When Buddha was enlightened, he could walk through mud without being disturbed. He realized Mud was Just Mud. He wasn't embedded in ideas, beliefs of fears about it, just experiencing the simple reality under his feet..