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Ideas for Living

Body Gates and the Path to Self-Knowing

This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series Body­work

Body Gates — there are gates in the body — metaphor­ic pas­sages from one stage of devel­op­ment to anoth­er. We look at mov­ing into the “full expres­sion of self” — into full being.

mind cobwebs
Zen Ideas

Mind Cobwebs

Mind Cob­webs — We’ve been con­di­tioned by our fam­i­lies and tribes to ‘fit in.’ Mak­ing pos­i­tive change is there­fore difficult…

Crowning Glory
Zen Ideas

Crowning Glory — The Body Speaks

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series The Body Speaks

Crown­ing Glo­ry — our heads are a bless­ing and a curse. If we buy into our sto­ries, we live in our heads, mis­er­able. Or, we can con­tin­u­al­ly choose to see our games while not biting.

insight
Zen Ideas

Insight — The Body Speaks

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series The Body Speaks

Insight: Our focus pulls inward, and then, as pre­dictably as the sun­rise, we’re pulled into our minds, there to tell our­selves sto­ries and dis­tract our­selves out­ward. We bring our­selves back by ded­i­cat­ing our­selves to insight.

compassion
Zen Ideas

Compassion — The Body Speaks

This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series The Body Speaks

Com­pas­sion is a mis­un­der­stood word. Com­pas­sion is some­times equat­ed with “feel­ing sor­ry for,” and is often used as a bludgeon…

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Zen Ideas

Self Awareness — The Body Speaks

This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series The Body Speaks

Self Aware­ness / Self Accep­tance is all about study­ing your­self with­out tak­ing your­self too seri­ous­ly. It’s not “esteem­ing your­self,” but sim­ply notic­ing that you are… who you are.

Passion for Life
Zen Ideas

Passion for Life — The Body Speaks

This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series The Body Speaks

Pas­sion for Life—The Body Speaks — we are built in such a way that we ought to see our life’s work—our vocation—as both sacred, and some­thing to be pas­sion­ate about.

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