Right Now It's Like This: Practicing Honestly with Heat, Sweat, and a Wandering Mind- Bansho Sensei

Borrowing Ajahn Sumedho's simple phrase as its anchor, this sesshin talk invites practitioners to stop arguing with their experience — the drowsiness, the pain, the restless commentary — and instead meet each moment with the complete honesty Hongzhi calls straightforwardly abandoning stratagems, which turns out to be both harder and simpler than any technique.