This week’s Zen stories are about ordinariness. And just think. You don’t have to strive for ordinariness. You don’t have to look for that. All you have to do is relax because you are already it.
Author Archives: Zareen
Bankai The Gardener
https://youtu.be/1WYSK2nSQyY A long time ago in the land of Zen, there was a great master whose name was Bankai. He had a small ashram up in the mountains, and disciples would come traveling up to find him. One day he was out working in the garden and such a fellow came along. This seeker walked …
Save You From the Search
https://youtu.be/l4a7RpVgjnE Save You From the Search My goal is to save you from the spiritual search. Crazy idea, huh? The reason is because life needs you. As long as you are searching for life, we don’t have the full you participating here with the rest of us. You’re Better Than You “Think” My experience …
13. Thinking Meditation
https://youtu.be/s5elx3e_SGc OK, now finally. Let’s really fool ourselves into meditation. Think. Close your eyes and sit there and try hard to think about something. This will be most effective if you have some big problem going on. Or maybe you’re studying for a test. That would be perfect… to sit there and think over and …
12. Easy Meditation Access with Laughter
https://youtu.be/YNrCjGe6dMw Today is a good day to not get too full of ourselves. We’re really good meditators now… right? We know how to be in bliss. We’re on the path. We’re highly evolved… No. No, what we’re trying to become is really, really ordinary. So, in this lesson, I am teaching the most important meditation …
11. How to Have a Mystical Experience
https://youtu.be/4t-i3C5LyQY Advanced Meditation! So we’ve gotten really good at enjoying ourselves, at paying attention to ourselves. Hopefully you’re getting better and better at sitting still. We’ve learned how we can switch back and forth from the different modes that are inside our experience. So… how can you, on purpose, have a mystical experience? It’s very …
10 The Both Brain Experience
https://youtu.be/vWHmbB2J9TA The Both Brain Experience Now we are getting real experience in accessing these two different sides of ourselves: The thinking critical left brain, and the mystical spatial right brain. Now. Practice shifting back and forth between the two. Again, this is very much like building a muscle. We’re not trying to get away from …
9 Full Brain Meditation Techniques
https://youtu.be/bBYKpX3rouU Hopefully you’re taking plenty of time to meditate and you’re getting better and better at it. Hopefully you are appreciating the value of enjoying yourself rather than fighting with yourself. Relaxation So, now that we’ve gotten to this relaxed state with ourselves start noticing, when you meditate, that this thing we call ‘the conscious …