Tag: distress
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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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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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Triumph And Disaster Or Uncompromising Truth: One Or The Other
Read time 6 minutes. Triumph and Disaster is a stand alone article in our Blocked Energy series. Right now, some people feel as though the world is ending. Others feel on top of it. Every so often I find the need to have what I playfully call a come to Buddha conversation. This lesson is for those…
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Abundance: Receiving Life In The Face of Unrestful Distress
Read time 5 minutes. Abundance is a stand alone article in our Blocked Energy series. Some weeks press harder than others. Noise in the world multiplies, and our minds run with it. Today let’s expand the meaning and definition of blocked energy. There is something we often overlook, though it never stops offering itself: abundance. Life, meaning,…
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Easing Inner Turmoil: Ride The Wave
Read time 3 minutes. Easing Inner Turmoil is a stand alone article in our Everyday Zen series. A Zen practice is not about eliminating every thought or silencing every emotion. It is aimed—indirectly—at easing inner turmoil. Three quotes say it best: “The mind is a beautiful servant, but a dangerous master.” — Sadhguru “…there is no such thing…
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Practice of Letting Go: Looking Within
Read time 3 minutes. What do we mean by ‘practice of letting go?’ This stand alone article is part of our letting go series. Over the past few lessons, we’ve unpacked the layered nature of emotional activity. We explored mood as the ego’s barometer, emotions as the voice of instinct, and the feedback loops fueled by imagination.…
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Undetectable Distress: The Void Beneath All We Know
Read time 2 minutes. Undetectable distress is the existential void that gives rise to emotional weight. This stand alone article is part of our letting go series. To truly understand the art of letting go, we need to step back—way back—and ask: why do we even feel the need to let go in the first…
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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…