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Welcome to Zen and the Art of Everyday Living. The aim of this blog is to present Zen and its … Continue reading Welcome
Welcome to Zen and the Art of Everyday Living. The aim of this blog is to present Zen and its … Continue reading Welcome
There is no such thing as an impatient Zen Master. While the above statement may seem obvious, for me it … Continue reading Patience: More Than a Virtue
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” ― Albert Einstein In the … Continue reading The Path of Wisdom: Determining the Best Course of Action
“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.” – George R. R. Martin Before we get … Continue reading The Path of Wisdom: Parenting the Inner Child
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” – Siddhartha Gautama In the post … Continue reading Embracing the Shadow Child
We’ve previously discussed the important role that attention plays in the practice of Zen, but what follows is one of … Continue reading Every-Minute Zen
In Letting Go: The Path to Peace we looked at how important it is to develop the ability to let … Continue reading Let Go, Let Go, Let Go
In my first post Practical Zen in a Nutshell we saw that Zen, when boiled down to its essential elements, consists … Continue reading The Zen Cycle
In the post, Our True Nature, we looked at how, at our core, we are beings whose essential nature is … Continue reading Tenderheartedness
Having looked at the rather weighty subject of impermanence in the last post, Impermanence and Gratitude, I’d like to move … Continue reading 575 Haiku Place
“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in … Continue reading Impermanence and Gratitude