Zen and Clarity — Zen Principles
Zen Principles: Zen and Clarity — learning to see clearly is key to creating peace and focus. Zen offers us many opportunities for clear seeing.
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Fearless Exploration of the Void
Only through fearless exploration of the void can we come to terms with and work with the monsters of our
Examining Your Premise
Examining Your Premise — your beliefs underlie everything you think and do — and most remain unexplored and unexamined. Let’s look at how this happens, and propose a couple of ideas for looking inside
Developing Self-Awareness
Developing Self-awareness — Self responsibility is never about self absorption. Self-responsibility is self awareness.
Body Gates and the Path to Self-Knowing
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
Mind Cobwebs — We’ve been conditioned by our families and tribes to ‘fit in.’ Making positive change is therefore difficult…
Vulnerability — 5 things
vulnerability is considered a weakness… fear of vulnerability is ingrained at a deep level, to our detriment, once we become adults.
Crowning Glory — 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 — 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.