Hi Douglas,
Do not evaluate, and just let go ... during Zazen. During Zazen do not ponder, do not evaluate, just let the thoughts and changing emotions just be, passing on through. One may then realize the aspect of this world which just is, timeless, whole without need for our small human judgements.
However, in life off the cushion, we need to plan, evaluate, learn from, consider, make effort, watch the clock. In our ignorance, however, sometimes that is all we do ... tangled and lost in a world of planning, evaluation, needs, effort, time, win and lose, coming and going, birth and death.
Hopefully, through this practice, when off the cushion, one learns that all of the above happen at once, and can manifest a kind of "planning non planning, evaluation without judgement" as if seeing life each way individually out of each of two eyes, with both eyes open at once offering the clear vision of a Buddha.
Do me a favor, and listen to the little talk today during our Zazenkai, from about the 57 minute mark ... on being both the boundless, timeless "original" clock face, even as the passing hands of time turn and turn ...
Gassho, J
stlah