Clear Mind Zen
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With palms together,
Good Morning All,
Today I would like to talk to you about Clear Mind Zen as the Zen of everyday life. It is the Zen of being. We could say that it is the Zen of being in the moment. Clear Mind Zen is original Zen. Zen before robes, before sutras, before chants and bows, and incense. It is stillness in its original face.
When we sit and just sit; walk and just walk; talk and just talk; listen and just listen; each in its own time and in its own pace, then we are practicing Clear Mind Zen. You say, "well, there's nothing special about that, we do that all the time!" I say, you are right, it is nothing special and it should be kept that way, but you are wrong if you think we do it all the time. Hardly. Witness and public place. People walking and talking, not even to each other, but into a cell phone seemingly glued to their ear. People driving and eating. People working and eating. Eating and reading. You'd think multi-tasking were a national treasure instead of the disease it has become. We are not mindful; we have become mindless.
Clear Mind Zen demands that we take a step backward. Sit down and just be with our self. How odd is that? It asks that we enjoy our tea or appreciate our coffee, and really listen to the sounds in the air. Still, it is far more (or less) than that. Clear Mind is the ting and the mind at one. No reflection, No rumination. Just this. Then, just that.
How can we do this in our very busy lives? Even in busy we can be mindful. Our brain is capable of very quick processing. More, there is no reason that slow is better than fast if we are mindful in each moment. On the other hand, there is no real reason that fast is better than slow, either. The key is being present as we happen.
This means developing the desire and then the skill of appreciating what is actually in our lives verses what we think ought to be in them. Too many of us are three steps ahead or two steps behind. Too many of us are in the store, calculating how this or that will look, rather than appreciating what we already have. And then? Well, storage units are a growth industry, I'm told.
So, please, begin today to be present. Pay attention. Find value. Its there. Believe me. Its in every breath you take.
Be well.
Good Morning All,
Today I would like to talk to you about Clear Mind Zen as the Zen of everyday life. It is the Zen of being. We could say that it is the Zen of being in the moment. Clear Mind Zen is original Zen. Zen before robes, before sutras, before chants and bows, and incense. It is stillness in its original face.
When we sit and just sit; walk and just walk; talk and just talk; listen and just listen; each in its own time and in its own pace, then we are practicing Clear Mind Zen. You say, "well, there's nothing special about that, we do that all the time!" I say, you are right, it is nothing special and it should be kept that way, but you are wrong if you think we do it all the time. Hardly. Witness and public place. People walking and talking, not even to each other, but into a cell phone seemingly glued to their ear. People driving and eating. People working and eating. Eating and reading. You'd think multi-tasking were a national treasure instead of the disease it has become. We are not mindful; we have become mindless.
Clear Mind Zen demands that we take a step backward. Sit down and just be with our self. How odd is that? It asks that we enjoy our tea or appreciate our coffee, and really listen to the sounds in the air. Still, it is far more (or less) than that. Clear Mind is the ting and the mind at one. No reflection, No rumination. Just this. Then, just that.
How can we do this in our very busy lives? Even in busy we can be mindful. Our brain is capable of very quick processing. More, there is no reason that slow is better than fast if we are mindful in each moment. On the other hand, there is no real reason that fast is better than slow, either. The key is being present as we happen.
This means developing the desire and then the skill of appreciating what is actually in our lives verses what we think ought to be in them. Too many of us are three steps ahead or two steps behind. Too many of us are in the store, calculating how this or that will look, rather than appreciating what we already have. And then? Well, storage units are a growth industry, I'm told.
So, please, begin today to be present. Pay attention. Find value. Its there. Believe me. Its in every breath you take.
Be well.