Once there was a king who had three sons. They were all really great. They had been trained by the finest teachers, and they had all grown into magnificent young men. The oldest was the bravest. He’d hunted for bears in the high mountains. He brought back hides for rugs. He could challenge any man …
Author Archives: Zareen
Ordinary Women
Non-duality moment… what would it be like as a woman to value ordinariness? A relaxed ordinariness? It might be the solution to all your problems.
Perception
We all know that the sun doesn’t rise or set. What actually happens is that the sun is (relatively) stationary and the earth is spinning around. The Zen of Astronomy So there was this one modern mystic who gave us a great Zen Story. He said, “What would it look like if the sun actually …
Ordinariness
This week’s Zen story is another one about ordinariness. It’s a story about Bankai from a long time ago. It’s about how we are always hankering for miracles and magic. Islam includes this An interesting little tidbit about Mohammed, and tribal society at the time of Mohammed, was they didn’t like miracles either. The reason …
Finding Reality
What would it be like if we stopped looking for miracles. That’s what this week’s Zen story is about. We might actually find reality. Reality is that place where nothing is broken.
Bankai’s Miracle
Here’s another story about Bankai. One day he’s sitting there with his disciples just quietly teaching. Having a moment, maybe a cup of tea. When a disciple of another sect comes walking up and he says, “Bankai. My master can stand on one side of the river with a brush in his hand and write …
Sweetgrass & Zen
Zoom Meeting: Tuesday Eve: Jan 10, 2023. 7:00 pm Mountain Time There is an intersection between Eastern enlightenment, teachings and Native American wisdom that can be accessed when we let the concepts that are confusing us in our minds relax. This allows our natural intuition, our natural normal self, to start interacting with the world. …
Everyone You Meet
This week’s Zen stories are telling us that the enlightened master, the enlightened person, is a very simple ordinary person… in fact the enlightened person might be the only ordinary person. This is the only person who is not hankering to become something else, or pretending to be something else. This is important to understand …