Tag: presence
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The Bear: Season 4 Is Not-Not Zen—002
Season 4 of The Bear explores chaos, dissonance, and the search for balance. Read time: 3 minutes. In season 4 of The Bear, the clock is always ticking down to zero—and never ticking at all. “I’ll see you tomorrow,” says Carmy.“Tomorrow is today,” replies Cousin. At one point, Philip K. Dick is arbitrarily quoted: “Everything in…
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RebelWhisper: LouderThanThunder—Zen Drop 015
Read time 2 minutes. The meaning of RebelWhisper. How silence can be louder and more confident than noise. We’ve been throwing around these bold ideas: StartZenRevolution.AwakeWide.SelfDisrupt. Loud, aggressive words.Words that thump like a stone into a pond—and shatter the stillness. But don’t get taken in by the splashy headlines.The ripple is the story. Because all the while,we’ve…
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Awake Wide: Zen Drop 014
Read time about 1 minute. Trying to be a Zen master?Trying to master the moment? Don’t master the moment—meet it.Awake Wide. 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 there—go beyond.Awake Wide—Wider than that. There’s…
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Something Remembered: Zen Drop 008
What is it about touching stillnessthat feels peacefully familiar? You don’t need to wait to get present.Presence is already here. Mini-awakenings are a slight return.The ache with no villain longs for a complete return. And that’s why we practice. Spiritual practice is remembering—remembering not to forget. Nothing added. Nothing gained. Everything changed.Peacefully familiar. Stillness remembers…
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Rebel Whisper: Zen Drop 006
Zen Drops are telling a story— from self-disruption to whispered rebellion and onto peaceful awareness. When you think of rebellion, what words come to mind? Loud? Outrageous? Riotous? Billy Idol sang,“With a rebel yell, she wants more, more, more.” With a rebel whisper,Zen demands less and less. A whisper commands your attention—but in a different…
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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
Lately I have been hearing a song by Elaine Stritch in a car commercial. Perhaps you have heard it too, as it is hard to ignore in its striking playfulness. The song is “Are You Having Any Fun?” Its lyrics are loaded with common sense wisdom. It asks, “Are you having any fun… laughs?” It…
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Unknowing Into The Peace of No-mind: Who Knows?
We have been winding our way through a few of the seemingly endless dualities which arise with Zen thought and practice. Along the way we have seen that many of the concepts overlap each other. Such is the case with today’s topic of no-mind. I like to think of experiences of no-mind as little, momentary…
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Impermanence and the Paradox of Being/Becoming
Today we move our discussion regarding the nature and relevance of paradoxes one step forward. In our last lesson, we looked at the paradox of everything and nothing, or absence and presence. Now we are going to discuss presence, not in the context of the presence or absence of a thing or experience, but rather,…
