Ordinariness is the key to Awakening… actually to having a good life. It’s all the hankering after everything else that drives us crazy.
Author Archives: Zareen
The Awakened Life is a Work of Art
The awakened life is a work of art because you never know, minute to minute, exactly what you’re creating. Sometimes things come out beautiful and wonderful, or what we see as beautiful and wonderful, Right? Sometimes it comes out not exactly as you expected, but that’s still not the end of it. You can keep …
Eyes that can see reality
What we are looking for in Awakening is to find eyes that can see reality. Ears that can hear reality. The only thing that needs to be changed, in any way, is just your perception, Just the filter that the eyes go through. The filter that the ears go through. Our brains are fabulous tools …
Search for Curiosity
Maybe the best thing to always search for is curiosity. Because just think how that kind of twists everything around. Instead of searching for answers, search for curiosity.
The Blue Lotus Flower
Once Upon a Time. Back in the day of Buddha, when Buddha was alive on the planet with us, there was a simple man. He was a Shoemaker and he had a pond behind his house. One day he goes out, it’s not in season, but a beautiful blue lotus flower bloomed. The man thought, …
Changing the conversation
So my teacher, Osho, did lots of stuff that didn’t really work out all that well. But one of the things that he did do, that I think is a huge breakthrough in the conversation about Enlightenment, in the searching for awareness, in all non-dual studies, and all Zen studies, is that he talked directly …
Bliss can be sad
Bliss can be sad. Bliss (Ananda) includes everything, so it can be angry. It can be sad. It can be anything.
The Good Doctor
So Mulla Nasrudine is at the doctor. The doctor looks at him and says, “Mulla. It’s not looking good. You are in bad shape. You don’t have long to live. Have you written your will?” Mulla looks at the doctor and says, “Oh yes. I have my will. Everything that I own goes to the …