To hold the truth before you, never be for or against. This is a fabulous Zen saying, but it’s important to realize that this doesn’t mean to not be discerning at all. What it means to constantly question the belief system that sits in your mind. Always stop and examine yourself. Don’t be for it. …
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What does Nothing Look Like?
What does nothing look like? Well it doesn’t look like much of anything, does it? That’s so much the meaning of this week’s Zen story.
What does Nothing Look Like?
Okay, all playing aside… well with me it probably won’t stay aside for very long. But this week’s Zen story, Where the Wind Takes. It’s the two young boys who are meeting on the path. And the one boy is trying hard to follow the rules and look spiritual like his monastery. The other boy, …
We Try to Look Spiritual
So… yeah. Don’t lie about it. We all try to look spiritual. Don’t we? We try to look more loving. We try to follow the books that we’ve read and look like we are supposed to look. We even have spiritual clothes We all do it! That is fabulous. You want to know what it …
Trying to Look More Enlightened
Today’s Zen story is about pretending to look more enlightened than somebody else. And the craziness that comes from that.
Where Ever the Wind Takes
A long time ago, in the land of Zen, there were two monasteries who couldn’t get along. They were two different sects with different philosophies. They wouldn’t talk to each other and couldn’t agree. There was a long standing feud between these two ‘religions.’ These two monasteries, they each had young boys in their employ, …
Whats it like to be Fully Alive?
What’s it like to be fully alive? That’s really the question of this week’s Zen story on death. What that question is asking is: what’s it like to be enlightened? What’s it like to be awake? And the answer is, really, not that different than what you are doing now. The big difference A few …
Eight Billion Fully Awake Beings
So this week’s Zen story is about death. But really, it’s about life. Are we all fully grasping our life potential? Are we living our lives? This is a life or death question. It’s an important question because if we are only living our lives partially, then we are using up resources without a full …