Zen Ideas
Focussed as compared to scattered — You ever watch people walking along while texting? That’s what scattered looks like. Being focussed takes discipline.
appreciating life
Zen Ideas
On Resisting the Urge to Give Up
On Resisting the Urge to Give Up — the world we see is the one we get to live in. Choose well how to do so!
tao
On Cleaning Out the Blame Game
Cleaning Out the Blame Game–There’s nothing particularly helpful about blame. And yet, it seems our minds revel in blame’s appeal. We fill our minds with slights, we tell ourselves how hard-done-by-we are, and we make ourselves victims of the past.
Zen Ideas
On Being Yourself
On Being Your–you are exactly and only who you are–including what you discover about yourself–the parts tucked away
Zen Ideas
Zen and Karma — karma is not a system of rewards and punishments, or even a “what goes around comes around” philosophy. It’s a statement that all things are interrelated, and results have causes.
Zen and Karma
Zen Ideas
Appreciating Life
The art of appreciating life is seldom practiced. I suspect this is so because appreciation actually contradicts our belief about how much is ‘wrong’ with life.