There is natural transformation of one form of energy to another like clouds turning into rain, but while things have a form they “enjoy” it and not try to become something else. But with us humans, there is constant craving to become something other than what we are. We have forgotten how to enjoy what we are at the moment.

link: My Zen Experience: Suchness of Universe

There is another Zen poem which says, ‘You cannot attain it by thinking, you cannot grasp it by not thinking.’ Or you could say, you cannot catch hold of the meaning of Zen by doing something about it, but equally, you cannot see into its meaning by doing nothing about it, because both are, in their different ways, attempts to move from where you are now, here, to somewhere else, and the point is that we come to an understanding of this, what I call suchness, only through being completely here.

link: Lecture on Zen by Alan Watts