Zen and Clinging
Zen and Clinging — Clinging is what causes suffering, or so said the Buddha. This idea is not so hard to understand, until we are… well… suffering. Then, we just want it to be over. And that’s how we go off the rails.
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Zen and Innocence
Zen and Innocence — finding a place of childlike innocence allows us to interact with life, rather than analyze it.
Recharging and De-cluttering for 2024
Recharging and De-cluttering — 10 Ways to Make 2024 a Year filled with promise and a centered, Zen-like perspective
Zen 101 — Self-Responsibility
Self-responsibility is hard, as we live in a time when blame is much more popular. Nonetheless, Zen is all about self-responsibility
Zen 101 — More Zen Ideas
Zen Concepts — learning to act on our beliefs as opposed to just spouting them is the work of a lifetime.
Zen 101 — Essential Zen Lessons
Essential Zen Lessons — Coming into presence is the key focus of Zen, and is accomplished in Zazen and “simply noticing. Here we begin to explore the foundations of building an “attentiveness practice.”
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.
Four Noble Truths — 4 Descriptors of the Way Life Is
4 Descriptors of the Way Life Is–the Buddha’s age-old wisdom (the Four Noble Truths) is perfect for helping us see
No One is Coming — Life is an Inside Job
No One is Coming to rescue you from the life you have created. It’s your job to stop waiting and to begin moving in a direction you choose.