Tag: presence
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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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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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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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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…
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The Space Between Yes an No
Read time under 1 minute. A micro meditation on the field of presence between decisions. What do Oh No and Oh Yeah have in common?The pause.The space from which either—or anything—is possible. Not the no.Not the yes.The space in between. That’s what we’re interested in. – Choose your own adventure:
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Rhett Butler—SexyIndifference OG and the Power of Presence
Read time 1 minute. Rhett Butler was the SexyIndifference GOAT, and that’s what made him iconic. He didn’t give a damn. Indifference has something extra on it.You can feel it. So can everyone else. And it repels. SexyIndifference doesn’t have that.It doesn’t try to be confident—it exudes it.It doesn’t try to be calm—it oozes it.It…
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AwakeWide: Zen Drop 014
Read time about 1 minute. AwakeWide into presence that expands without limit. Trying to be a Zen master?Trying to master the moment? Don’t master the moment—meet it.AwakeWide. No matter what you call the practice, that is the practice.Approach it. Embrace it. Enjoy it. Awareness alone does not guarantee transformation.But awareness takes you to the edge.When you get…
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Be Here Now: Zen Drop 002
Read time 1 minute. Presence is a part of everything. Be here now to experience it. These 3 little words are seemingly everywhere: Be Here Now…. The mind knows the words. But knowing is not being. Be: No doing. No becoming. The foundation. The Is-ness. No more. No less. Here: Feel the space around you, free of…
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Silliness: The Wisdom And Presence Of Playfulness
Read time 4 minutes. Silliness as presence. Lately I’ve been hearing a car commercial with Elaine Stritch singing “Are You Having Any Fun?” Maybe you’ve heard it too—it’s hard to miss. The song is striking in its playfulness, but also loaded with wisdom: “Are you having any fun… laughs?” Or the sharper question: “Who cares for what you’ve got if…