https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/9556.html ~ 12 minutes.
In this short Dharmette, Gil Fronsdal unpacks two great Zen stories. I find that Gil’s decades’ of training in both the Theravada and Zen monastic traditions allow him to provide a very unique perspective on practice.
When things are thrown at us by life, instead of jumping to conclusions, we can ask: is that so? When society and others rush us to conclusions about our life and situation, we can say: we shall see.