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Nothing is Apparent

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Syn­op­sis: Noth­ing is Appar­ent to any­one else, and most stuff isn’t even appar­ent to you! One of the biggest mis­takes peo­ple make when relat­ing is assum­ing… well… pret­ty much every­thing. Noth­ing, though, is obvi­ous, and often, what’s “obvi­ous” to you real­ly isn’t, so how on earth could some­one else fig­ure out what is unclear to you? But

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10 Quick Examples of Zen Living

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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

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Zen and Being Yourself

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Syn­op­sis: zen and being your­self  —  real­i­ty is that which is right in front of us. Descrip­tions of real­i­ty are con­ve­nient fic­tions. Most of the peo­ple I come across are try­ing (des­per­ate­ly…) to have an expe­ri­ence oth­er than the one they are hav­ing. Which, I sup­pose, is sort of an authen­tic thing to want, giv­en that the

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On Finding Your Flexibility

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Find­ing Your Flex­i­bil­i­ty  —  Some years ago, the Work­er’s Com­pen­sa­tion Board in Ontario invit­ed me to start work­ing with injured work­ers. Dar­bel­la and I taught them med­i­ta­tion, qi gong, and some yoga stretch­es.  We thought we were going to take the project province wide, but then the gov­ern­ment shift­ed pri­or­i­ties, and stopped hir­ing out­side consultants.

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Finding Your Flexibility

On Just Sitting

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Just Sit­ting  —  a way of doing med­i­ta­tion that needs noth­ing. NO count­ing breaths, no mantras. Just sit­ting.  Want more help with things like deal­ing with stress, learn­ing to com­bat pain nat­u­ral­ly, med­i­ta­tion and Qi Gong? Check out our Book / Videos pack­et, Find­ing Your Flex­i­bil­i­ty. It’s a pdf guide, and a group of online

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Cling Static

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We get cling sta­t­ic when­ev­er we find our­selves grasp­ing onto some­thing (or push­ing it away–in which case we’re cling­ing on to not hav­ing it.) Today’s top­ic is addressed more ful­ly in my book, Half Asleep in the Bud­dha Hall. One of the ear­li­est teach­ings of the Bud­dha con­cerns the nature of life, and is often called the Four

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Dropping Arrogance

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Today, we’re using a famil­iar Zen sto­ry to help us to see ways for drop­ping arro­gance  This top­ic is described in my book, Half Asleep in the Bud­dha Hall. You can read more about it here A Few Ways to Get Over Your­self This is a Zen sto­ry about Today, we’re using a famil­iar Zen

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Learning to be Ordinary

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Learn­ing to be Ordi­nary  —  being ordi­nary is not bor­ing. It’s using our selves ful­ly, with­out com­par­i­son to oth­ers. It’s being present and con­tent, with­out com­par­i­son.  This top­ic is described in my book, Half Asleep in the Bud­dha Hall. You can read more about it here So, have you ever heard of “Place­hold­er The­o­ry”? As

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