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A regular sitting practice makes all those aspects of life, of our body and mind, all the things that we keep ordinarily at arm’s length, increasingly unavoidable. It’s not what we might have had in mind when we first signed up, but it’s what we get.
Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
Vervaeke clip on Tim Ferris: The church, the temple, and the mosque used to be places where an “ecology of practices” had a home. It was less about socializing, or communicating, but communing. People would mutually conform to set of rituals and words that would transform themselves, enhancing religio, sacredness, and an awareness of the depths of
... See moreWhat matters is whether we learn to play our instrument well or badly. That’s going to take discipline and practice, no matter how or where we do it. Maybe it’s not so important which instrument we choose, as long as we can make it ours. Likewise, there is no need to stick with an instrument to which we don’t feel very suited because we’ve heard th
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
Thay shares this practice as “offering joy to one person in the morning and helping relieve the suffering of one person in the afternoon.”
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
whether we are beginners or long-term practitioners, our core agenda centers around happiness.
Bill Morgan • The Meditator's Dilemma: An Innovative Approach to Overcoming Obstacles and Revitalizing Your Practice
basic mindfulness practice as a way of looking that merely fabricates a little less than our habitual ways of looking.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
Once upon a time, long ago, people walked about barefoot. One day, the queen, walking across a rock field, cut her foot on a sharp stone. Annoyed, she called together her ministers and ordered the Queendom carpeted with leather. One wise minister stepped forward and suggested an easier way. "Rather than covering the entire realm, let’s cover t
... See moreGil Fronsdal • Issue at Hand
In my own life, Zen and psychoanalysis have been practiced in tandem now for thirty years. Each continues to challenge, inform, and enrich the perspective of the other.
Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
It is the realization of “no gain” that allows us to revere each thing, each person, each moment as ends in themselves, not as means toward some personal goal. The “uselessness” of true practice keeps it at odds with our various “secret practices,”