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Are These Gas Prices High or Something? — Zen Drop 26
Gas prices keep going up.So you’re standing at the pump, watching the numbers climb like it’s a horror movie. Suddenly, a wise old monk walks up and says,“Your resistance is only making this worse.” “Great,” you say. “Does that mean you’re buying?”Because then we might be getting somewhere. We’ve all heard it: grin and bear it.Which
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Every time I Hear Pink Moon I Think of Her
Urgency without clarity. Ignoring what matters in real time. Without knowing why. And only recognizing it later through a song. Every time I hear Pink Moon I think of her. San Francisco to Seattle.The red sands of Shasta.The moon over Crater Lake. She wanted to stop and see.We didn’t. She wanted to stay in Portland.We
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Keep Your Pants On
Guy comes flying into a parking space as I’m locking my bike up at the grocery store. Coming in hot.Like… if his foot slips, I’m part of the asphalt. So I give him the look. And you know how fast things escalate.This thing can go a million ways right now. Most of them bad. All I actually want…
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Breathing In… Breathing Out… One Movement
Read time 1 minute. A uniquely subtle but important reframing of breath awareness practice as movement and transition. Breath awareness practice. The foundation of mindfulness.There are many methods. Here’s one you might not have considered. Something simple: Forget counting breaths.Forget inhale.Forget exhale. Forget the names entirely. Consider, instead, the qualities within a breath. Pressure.A subtle
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Regret—Loss Disguised as Living
Read time 1 minute. Regret pretends to teach. This article does too. Regret—Loss Disguised as Living is a stand alone article in our ongoing Goth Zen series. We distrust darkness. We imagine something is hiding in there.Or we villainize it as if it were synonymous with demise. We’re told: To meet the moment you must stop running.We’re rarely
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The Spirituality Problem— How To Avoid Endless Seeking
Read time 2 minutes. A quiet reflection on what often gets called “spiritual seeking.” The spirituality problem isn’t about presence or enlightenment, but the habit of standing outside our own lives, watching and trying to fix them Do you sometimes feel like an outsider in your own life?Do you find yourself struggling to feel complete?
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Silence is the Loud Unamplified: Zen Drop 25
Read time under a minute. What does it mean to hear?What does it mean to be quiet? There is no empty.No nothing.Not really. So what does it mean to be silent?Noise rises and loops.It fights and feeds on itself. Feeds the senses.But what isn’t loud can’t be heard.Not even softly—just steady.Unrelenting. You only recognize itwhen you
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Everyone Meditates: A Different Way to Understand Meditation
Read time 2 minutes. Meditation isn’t something you add to life. It’s what happens when you stop interfering. Do you meditate?Everyone meditates.Just not in the way we might think. If you’ve ever sat with a decision instead of forcing it—if you’ve ever let an idea breathe—if you’ve ever watched something unfold without touching it—you were
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BeToKnow: Zen Drop 24
Read time 1 minute. BeToKnow is a stand alone article in our BeToKnow series. The only way to fight a metaphor is to bring a bigger metaphor… It’s an odd collection of articles, this BeToKnow series. No rhyme.No reason. Just this abstract, amorphous through-line—BeToKnow. Devo:Conceptual art. What happens when you go beyond speaking “your truth” and start living it?Better yet,