Life is a very simple matter

"We human beings all think there is something to accomplish, something to realize, someplace we have to get to. And this very illusion, which is born out of having a human mind, is the problem. Life is actually a very simple matter. At any given moment in time we hear, we see, we smell, we touch, we think. In other words there is sensory input; we interpret that input, and everything appears.

When we are embedded in this life there is simply seen, hearing, smelling, touching, thinking (and I don't mean self-centered thinking). When we live this way there is no problem; there couldn't be. We are just that. There is life and we are embedded in it; we are not separate from life. We just are what life is because we are being what life is; we hear, we think, we see, we smell, and so on. We are embedded in life and there is no problem; life flows along. There is nothing to realize because when we are life itself, we have no questions about life. But that isn't the way our lives are-and so we have plenty of questions."

Everyday Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck, the beginning of the chapter: The Razor's Edge

I really like this chapter. The first two paragraphs lay it out so simply, and then it takes the rest of the chapter to explain what it means and how we do this.