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It’s Firing Your Boss: Zen Drop 21
Read time 3 minutes. What is Zen? It’s firing your boss. We just want to show up, do our best, and enjoy life. At least most of us do. But then there’s—well, you know the type. Like Bill Lumbergh in Office Space. The passive-aggressive, coffee-cup-holding manager. “Yeahhh, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and…” Or how…
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Total Immersion – Nothing Left to Oppose
Read time 3 minutes. Total Immersion is a stand alone article in our Spiritual Immersion series. The revolution doesn’t begin with calm.It begins when you let yourself feel everything —and you stop backing away. Nothing is erased. The flood still comes.The ego still calls from the shore.What changes is the way you meet it.All of it. For most…
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Wednesday Addams Is Not-Not Zen: 004 (Even in Season 2)
Read time 2 minutes. In season 2, Wednesday Addams sharpens stillness like a blade. This is the first installment in our ongoing Goth Zen series. Some say she’s morbid. Others say she’s just Wednesday. Underneath it all, a deeper truth—Death is beauty unfolding. Silence as strength “I’m most comfortable with uncomfortable silence.” — Wednesday Addams…
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Not the River Beside You — The River As You
Read time 2 minutes. Everything moving through you is you. The River As You is a stand alone article in our Spiritual Immersion series. Why do so many teachings whisper presence and oneness—then turn around and say: Step outside your thoughts. They aren’t you. Such teachings are half-truths.Training wheels.They get the ball rolling. In Sometimes the Flood, we saw…
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Calming Breath Practice: Tongue Tricks and Tranquility Juice
Read time 3 minutes. A calming breath practice or three to help dissolve the ego. Long before I knew much about Zen, I stumbled upon an interesting practice. One night, for reasons I can’t remember, I tried to imitate Tibetan throat singing with childlike sincerity. The deep rumble filled me until it felt like my…
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Fuhgeddaboudit: Zen Drop 20—The Undeniable Presence of No One in Particular
Read time 1 minute. When you let it go and fuhgeddaboudit, you embody the undeniable presence of no one in particular. I seem to have forgotten something.I have to remember. What did I come in here for?What was I about to say? It’s on the tip of my tongue. What is this nagging feeling?I just…
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Stillness As Depth: Holding Emotion Without Being Overwhelmed
Read time 2 minutes. Stillness As Depth is a stand alone article in our Spiritual Immersion series. In Sometimes the Flood, we saw that the flood can cleanse.Sometimes the flood can bowl you over. But nothing overtakes youwhen you know you are largerthan what moves through you. People confuse stillness with shutdown.With numbness.With some get your Zen on…
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Emotional Overwhelm: Sacred Letting Go | Sometimes the Flood
Read time 2 minutes. Emotional Overwhelm is a stand alone article in our Spiritual Immersion series. There are things we think we can’t do without.People we think we can’t live without.And then—without a sound—they’re gone. You feel it in your chest. In your throat.That moment right before the tears.Like your body—your whole world—is a held breath. We…
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Holding Your Breath For Unconditional Presence
Read time under a minute. Holding Your Breath For Unconditional Presence is an introductory article for our Spiritual Immersion series. Seed #1 — Waiting for Perfect We’re holding our breath.Waiting for the perfect moment.As if stillness will make it arrive. But life doesn’t wait with us.It moves on—slipping past the pause we’re clinging to. The…