-- No Cold and Heat --

A monk asked Tozan, "How can we escape the cold and heat?" 

Tozan replied, "Why not go where there is no cold and heat?" 

"Is there such a place?" the monk asked. 

Tozan commented, "When cold, be thoroughly cold; when hot, be hot through and through."

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Zen is not about running away from a situation. Zen is observing anything and everything with meditative silence. If you are not meditating and just reading these stories then you are just wasting your time!!!