Whenever we step away from emotional reactivity, a confining narrative or our filtering concepts, and relate directly to what is present in the here and now, we are taking the backward step.

Give up a practice based on intellectual understanding – searching for phrases and chasing after words.

Take the backward step and turn the light inward.

Your body-mind of itself will drop away, and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

Dogen, 1200 – 1253, Fukanzazengi