Each day we can encounter setbacks or difficulties, or simply things may happen which we did not expect. And sometimes they can reveal a lot,  if they stir up our own mixture of unresolved issues linked to our past.  Rather than regarding them as diversions or obstacles on the path, we are encouraged to see them as where we are called to go. The “bad” situation becomes something to be skillfully worked with:

A person who falls to the ground gets back up by using that ground.

To try to get up without relying on that ground would be impossible.

Chinul, 1158–1210,

Zen Master considered to be the most significant influence on the formation of Korean Zen