It's a question of affinity. You have affinity for the way you tend to stick with practice in one form or another. Doesn't necessarily have to be Zen practice, does it that? Again, also depends on Affinity. There are many ways which work. Of course, we need to settle on one go as deeply as we can go. Sheng yen says, after a few days of practice, many people completely stopped thinking about themselves and their outside affairs. However, they keep dwelling on my words. Whatever I say is meant to guide your practice, but when you are actually practicing, you should just use the method and not think about what I may have said, unless you talk to yourself, the closer you will be to the highest way. I once told a student, you really have to practice very hard to overcome ignorance. For two sitting periods, she was constantly thinking, how am I ignorant? Unable to contain it any longer, she got up and said to me, I can eat, I can sleep, so I really am not ignorant. I said, Look at a dog, a cat, a mosquito, they can eat and rest. Are you saying they don't have any ignorance? Then she said, Tell me what to do so that I won't be ignorant again. I don't know where he gets these students. I said, try to meditate and recite the Buddha's name. She went back to her cushion and meditated on the Buddha's name. This is another form of practice. I guess it's used in some in Chinese, in chan but again, she thought to herself, since I am here meditating and reciting the Buddha's name, I am not ignorant. After another two periods, she came to me again and said, in fact, I don't have any problems. I have been sitting here feeling very comfortable. It is you who have vexations. Her problem was that although she took my words seriously, she would turn them over and over in her mind instead of actually applying the method during practice. It is only when you no longer have any words or thoughts that the perfect way will manifest before you, and there is nowhere you cannot penetrate. The meaning is not that you can go anywhere, but there that there is no need to go anywhere, because in the state of no words and no thoughts, you are in the midst of anywhere and every place. How do you get to the state of no words and no thoughts by picking up the method and putting down your attachment to things you