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ZenWorlds #34 – Fear Meditation
ZenWorlds ZenCast #34 is a mini meditation designed to help you deal or maybe even erase fears.
ZenWorlds ZenCast #34 – Fear Meditation
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Awakening of Mugai Nyodai Part 2 (d. 1298)
“Listen carefully. The teachers of the past have said that people are complete as they are. Each one is perfected; not even the width of one eyebrow hair separates them from this perfection. All sentient beings fully possess the wisdom and virtues of the Buddha. But because they are overcome by delusive thoughts and attachments, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )ZenWorlds #33 – Boundary Meditation
ZenWorlds ZenCast #33 is a meditation designed to help you realize your personal boundaries and enforce them with those around you.
ZenWorlds #33 – Boundary Meditation
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Awakening of Mugai Nyodai Part 1 (d. 1298)
Looking from the inside, your self has no mind. Forget also about your connections with others. Looking from the outside, there is no mind anywhere to be found. If random thoughts should occur to you unexpectedly, let them go straight away. Do not follow them. This is the essential technique of zazen. Believe this and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Done: Reduce Task Friction to Get to Task Completion
“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.” – Dale Carnegie
Done: Reduce Task Friction to Get to Task Completion – Zen Habits
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Beginner’s Mind
Beginner’s mind is Zen practice in action. It is the mind that is innocent of preconceptions and expectations, judgements and prejudices. Beginner’s mind is just present to explore and observe and see “things as-it-is.” I think of beginner’s mind as the mind that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )10 Ways to Live in the Moment Every Moment of Your Life
People talk about living in the moment as being an optimal way to live a life. In my experience, it’s just as easy to get wrong as it is to get right.
If the moments we choose to live in are saturated with work, we’re living buried in the labor and not in our lives.
The trick [...]
ZenWorlds #32 – Anger Meditation
ZenWorlds ZenCast #32 is a meditation designed to help you manage anger. Anger is a very natural emotion. Some manage it better than others. Some take a deep breath and shrug off what made them angry and some have tendencies to stew on the source of the anger without the ability to self-sooth. For those [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Wound-up, Stressed? The Secret of Instant Serenity
We cannot get too much of loving-kindness. All of us are in need of it. And we ourselves are often the ones who are our harshest critics and withhold our self love. When you touch the heart with the hand of love, your soul unfolds and your whole being lightens up.
Wound-up, Stressed? The Secret of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The Unity of Words, Thoughts and Deeds
People want to be liked and they do not want to cause pain, so they lie. Lying never does any good and it only creates more pain. The best way to be in this world, and it does take time to master, is to always mean what we say and do what we say we [...]
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