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zen and clinging
Zen Ideas

Zen and Clinging — Zen Principles

This entry is part 7 of 12 in the series Zen 101
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.
self responsibility
Zen Ideas

Zen 101 — Self-Responsibility

This entry is part 3 of 12 in the series Zen 101
Self-respon­si­bil­i­ty is hard, as we live in a time when blame is much more pop­u­lar. Nonethe­less, Zen is all about self-responsibility
essential zen lessons
Zen Ideas

Zen 101 — Essential Zen Lessons

This entry is part 1 of 12 in the series Zen 101
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
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.
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