Tag: correct understanding
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A Knowing Glance Within: I See You
Read time 4 minutes. A Knowing Glance Within is a stand alone article in our Everyday Zen series. Let’s pick up where we left off with Everyday Zen. Today I want to focus on the act of a knowing glance within—a glimpse of allowing. Why another lesson on this? Because if you’ve been following these practices, the…
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Practical Mindfulness and The Art of Experiential Knowing
Read time 4 minutes. Practical Mindfulness is a stand alone article in our Everyday Zen series. In the last lesson I borrowed Charlotte Joko Beck’s phrase everyday Zen. I described it as daily, practical mindfulness—practical meaning seasoned, trained, skilled. The more often we weave moments of awareness into ordinary life, the more real shift we begin to notice: in…
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Good Practice Destroys Itself: The Selfishness of Selflessness
Read time 3 minutes. A good practice destroys itself and the everything that motivates us to do it along with it. Charlotte Joko Beck once wrote: “Practice, if you get right down to it, is very self-centered… But when you do it, something else happens. It begins to eat up the illusions that are making…
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Opening of the Third Eye: Practice vs. Understanding
Read time 2 minutes. The opening of the third eye involves the interplay of Zen understanding and practice as preparation for transformation. In our last lesson, we looked at the power of correct understanding. Today, we’ll turn to Zen practice and look at how these two forces quietly conspire. Together, they form a structure. Not…
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Correct Understanding of Zen: The Three Pillars
Read time 2 minutes. How Duality, Ego, and Thought Shape—and Distort—Our View of Reality, formulating a correct understanding of Zen teachings. Let’s take a moment to step back. Sometimes the clearest insight arrives not through progress, but through pause. A brief reset. A return to the basics—because the foundation matters more than we think. Zen…