"Feel the crisp edge of your reality" then be quiet

How do you act when pulled over for speeding? Thomas Moore shares his zazen-style response in "No Need to Explain", his September-October 2016 column for Spirituality & Health magazine. Moore suggests:

"Being simply with what is, you feel yourself and sense the moment. The edges of your experience are intact. You own your world, which is never perfect and is so perfect that way. So delicious. So right.
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The real art of being with what is is to know when to stop talking. Most add-ons are defensive, explanatory, and escapist. You want to speak without speaking, or confess without being guilty. Better to feel the crisp edge of your reality and be with it, weeds and all.
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It is so tempting to explain and defend and be in the right. But it might be far better to keep quiet. Use a few simple words. Do what seems unreasonable. Live in such a way that you don’t have to be innocent all the time."

Read Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki to help with encounters:

"Our mind should be soft and open enough to understand things as they are."