Pure Mountain Tao

The more you are interested in something, the more you pay attention. When you are paying attention, then the more simple, clear, and free the mind is to absorb what is going on at the present. The chattering of the mind ceases. It is the chattering that interferes with us paying attention. So, the mind that is chattering, that is verbalizing, fantasizing, cannot understand the truth that stands before it. It cannot be mindful of the moment.

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We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
–D. T. Suzuki

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Many people sit in meditation in the hope of becoming enlightened. My thought is that it does not matter so much if you become enlightened or not as long as you are making the effort to sit. Truly enlightened beings are few and far between. Those that regularly meditate may not be enlightened, but are not lost in the darkness either.