I was requested an article about ”Zen at work”. I ended up crystallizing my life experience in the same form as the classical 1000-year-old Koan collection Mumonkan. Rational writing would be boring; I have tried it.
Layman Ari works with beings
Case
You choose: some live, some die.
Commentary
Everyone has a great koan in front of her, like it or not. ”What do I choose to do next?”
Your action is the only thing you really own. That is you. Would you like to do it well?
The action will emerge from the whole of the body-mind and the environment. There is no separate me deciding. Me happens from moment to moment. You experience it but can not explain.
After thirty years of stealing from other bandits, he only could open a can of worms. Anyway, tell me what is not a being.
Verse
Gently hold your intention,
and things will fall into place.
Let curiosity guide your slightest action,
and both the goal and the path will emerge.
There is no must,
whatever you encounter can be studied.
Hear and acknowledge beings happen;
effortlessly deciding.
Originally published in the magazine Zendo of Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet, June 2017.

I always struggled with the original last line of the poem. It used to be ”Separation ending.” That sounds so half-way. The current one connects more to the opening of the koan, and is more active, back to world.