After two days and many hours of sitting in zazen, the incessant thoughts of my every day life, the distractions and desires finally began to ebb and slow, and what started to rise were the thoughts that reflected the deeper, more troubling realities I was contending with. I sat and observed as these thoughts kept rising and releasing. And as Zazen isn't really about achieving a goal or objective; its about sitting with what surfaces, I continued to return to my breath and let this process be...