The teaching says that our suffering comes from trying to grasp the ungraspable. Only nothing is graspable. We think some thing is graspable and try to grasp it; frustrated by this attempt to grasp the ungraspable we suffer. We think that nothing is ungraspable, but every thing is ungraspable.

 The act of grasping itself causes change, causes a chain reaction. When there is no grasping everything settles naturally, and naturally everything becomes clear.

 The act of grasping is like a bellows creating wind and vibrations the emanate out, creating our world. Movement created by our grasping is what we call Gyo in Zen. Gyo is our action or activity, it is every step we take in our lives. There is the Gyo we do the actions we take, and the Gyo response or affect it has in the world we are part of. Those Gyo that we attach to causes more Gyo response; good Gyo actions cause good Gyo response; bad Gyo actions cause bad Gyo response. But the Gyo actions without grasping, without attachment, have no Gyo response. Without grasping not even a ripple is stirred. Every thought, word, and deed count as Gyo.

Our mind, word, & body silent & still is the first step in seeing clearly which Gyo do not grasp us and which we do not grasp. In this way, naturally the grasping drops away, and clarity rushes in.

 This is done in zazen, it is not the only way, but it is the most consistent way; in Zen it has always been done this way. There are other ways, but they are not Zen.

 When grasping drops away we sit in the silent still center. From this center we move out into the world naturally matching reality as it is. Moving naturally like this is what we call moving without moving or doing without doing. Not doing what we want, but just being in the world as it is, doing what needs to be done. This is the middle path (chudo) between pleasure and pain where mind & body fall away. The temporary pleasures are only temporary, and the passing pains are only passing; but the life is full of living. Living reality as it really is.