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Zen Ideas

On Killing the Buddha

On killing the Bud­dha — This means ‘being with’ myself as I am, with­out judge­ment. I am how I am. And as I go there, I real­ize that, if I do not cling to the idea that I will be this way ‘for­ev­er,’ how I am shifts as time goes by. If I do not invest in my ‘tale of woe,’ I pass through it — until the next time.
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Zen Ideas

Be Where You Are

Be Where You Are — The wise per­son does not know the des­ti­na­tion. The wise per­son does know where he or she is now.
Awake as Compared to Asleep
Ideas for Living

Awake as Compared to Asleep — Whole Being

This entry is part 2 of 11 in the series Whole Being
On Wak­ing Up — Awake as com­pared to Asleep It’s hard to admit, but our lives are most­ly lived on autopi­lot. While there are plen­ty of rea­sons for “sleep­ing while awake,” (brain effi­cien­cy, etc.) the main rea­son we do it it is that we fear the work being awake entails.
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Thoughts on Letting Go

Thoughts on Let­ting Go — let­ting go is all about learn­ing what you can con­trol, and what you can’t. And not whin­ing about it.
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Zen Ideas

Finding Compassionate Wholeness

Com­pas­sion­ate whole­ness hap­pens infre­quent­ly in our world, because of the down­ward pull toward secu­ri­ty and safe­ty — things val­ued by
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