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.
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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.
Mind, Meditation, Suffering, Letting Go
Mind, Meditation, Suffering, Letting Go — it’s difficult to let go of our own stories, especially about how we suffer. Here are some hints.
Whole Being — Awareness as compared to Non-awareness
Awareness as compared to Non-awareness — not only is paying attention a challenge, what we miss far outweighs what we pay attention to. Nevertheless, it’s worth working toward more awareness.
5 Key Concepts for Zen Living
5 Key Concepts for Zen Living — I thought I’d write a “start here” article to help you get on board with some of our perspectives. This article contains multiple links to our site, and to other BLOG articles. Click around and enjoy!
Things Change When You Do
Things Change When You Do — this is about is how we deal with events that seem larger than life. Typically, these events are categorized as “This is not fair!” Gathered under this umbrella are things like death, illness, accidents, global catastrophes, abuse, and the like. Darbella and I once led a seminar. One of the participants was …
On NOT Going Home For the Holidays
Going Home for the Holidays? Nope. Just stay away from the crowds, eh? Maybe next year… So, what might you do for yourself this year? Or for yourself and your home circle? Here are a few ideas. I suspect none of us are going to forget 2020. Masks. Isolation. Thousands upon thousands of deaths, millions afflicted. And …
Ceilings and The Dynamics of Depression
Ceilings and The Dynamics of Depression — depression is simply a label, and for most of us, not a helpful one. Let’s explore depression and see if there’s a link between negative stories and depression. So, I received a question: “Recently started to follow your blog. I’ve been interested in Zen Buddhism for many years …
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.
10 Quick Examples of Zen Living
Examples of Zen Living — here’s how to simplify your life and way of being 1. One thing at a time Multitasking is impossible. Watch yourself when you attempt it. What you are actually doing is turning your attention from one thing to another, to another, rapidly. And, because changing your focus takes energy, nothing gets your full attention. Experiment: watch your …
