Zen and Sanity
In many ways, the practice of Zen is the practice of true sanity. True sanity is not wrapped up in ethics, mores, or conventionality, rather it’s a grounding in reality facilitied by awakening.
Reality’s fullness is transcendent of fleeting conceptions, momentary approximations, and hopeful definitions - it simply is as it is, beyond the constraints we so fervently seek to apply to it in hopes of gaining some control over it, of demanding some predictability from its patterns.
Human problems are essentially all born of a misalignment between expectation and manifestation, from a subject-object divide that assumes one-sided supremacy, deference, and control. When we are confronted with the fact that our very being is non-distinct from flow of reality itself, and when we consciously resign to (and as) that flow, things have a way of clearing up.
It’s not that one comes to avoid misfortune and inherit only “the good,” or some other preferential conception of reality, but that one no longer resists reality’s fullness, and finds a home in the pulsating, ebb and flow that is the Dharmakaya - all things and non-things run through, and running through one another.