Is It Good?

Zen has
all these ways
which it thinks
can help
to make life good
for people,
and they involve
a lot of tricky
brain tricks
that make people think
that everything's good
and that
they are in
Nirvana,
but I have found
after about
forty years
of studying Zen,
that when life is good,
indeed,
life is good,
but when life is bad,
life is just bad,
so, it's the same
as I always knew,
right from the beginning.