good afternoon, my dear earthworm.
not long ago, apropos of everything, a friend of mine said with a sideways smile:
- the grail isn't zen.
are you ahead of me here, or should i explain? well, let me unfold this a little.
zen is finding, the grail is searching.
the whole business of longing and seeking, wounding and healing, losing and finding, is at the heart of the pursuit of the grail, but it is not zen.
true, the grail knight has the expectation that when the grail is found, the search will be over and all hunger, longing and desire will evaporate and give way to bliss. yet because the finding of the grail is zen, the grail must remain lost. if it were found, the grail quest (the justification for the seeker's very existence) would have to be abandoned.
you and i have a grail knight within, don’t we? we are story tellers, and all story-telling is grail. there is no story to zen.
once you reach zen, you’ve left the story.
consider that.