Expedient Means and the Benefit of Doubt

When Charlotte Joko Beck tells us that getting lost in thought is losing reality, it hits like a splash of cold water. But then Zhuang Zhou floats in like a butterfly and asks, "But what is reality, anyway?" So which is it? A wake-up call… or just another dream within a dream? Here we step into the delicious ambiguity of Zen teaching—where certainty takes a back seat, and expedient means might just be the wisest trick in the book. Time to give doubt its due. Let’s dive in.