if you walk long enough, thoughts disappear and you become walking.

Two nights ago I walked home from the train station – about two miles – late at night. I had parked at a train station closer to home, but would have had to wait another 45 minutes in the city for a train to take me the extra two miles, so I chose the farther train station figuring I would take a cab to the car. I was tired before the walk but it was peaceful and a cool night. The universe said walking was the thing to do.
Earlier in the day I was driving my daughters somewhere and asked aloud:
“Is it better to stay straight here or turn?”
Not prying her face from her iPad, my older girl said, “um, I don’t know”.
“Don’t worry darlin. I was asking the universe.”
pause
“okay Dad. you just keep talkin to the universe and let me know how that goes.”

Of course, she was onto something and missing it at the same time. Are you talking to the universe, or listening to it? I think Dogen is recommending listening.
“The real way circulates everywhere; how could it require practice or enlightenment? Nothing is separate from this very place; why journey away? And yet, if you miss the mark by a strand of hair, you are as distant as heaven from earth. … If you are wandering about in your head, you may miss the vital path of letting your body leap. … Take the backward step and turn the light inward. … Do not be concerned with who is wise or who is stupid. Do not discriminate the sharp from the dull. Practice realization is not defiled with specialness; it is a matter for every day. … Do not judge right or wrong. Stop conscious endeavor and analytical introspection. Do not try to become a Buddha. How could being a Buddha be limited to sitting or not sitting? To practice wholeheartedly is the true endeavor of the way. … Now sit steadfastly and think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Beyond thinking. This is the essential art of zazen. … Know that the true dharma emerges of itself, clearing away hindrances and distractions.”

My favorite part of the Lord’s prayer is: Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.

You can either listen to the universe, or you can talk to it. I don’t know which is better. But I know that if you walk long enough, your thoughts disappear and you become walking.