Category: Zen
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Heaven is a Place on Earth.
In the same way that dehumanization paves the way for every kind of atrocity against humanity, I think much of the cruelty and abuse we inflict on our living planet and it’s non-human inhabitants is the result of detachment – fostered by our collective ego and the egocentric trappings of modernity. I also believe that […]
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Aimless
Over the past few weeks I’ve been limiting my engagement with other people (as I periodically do) in order to focus on personal projects, and to give my heart a rest from the non-stop, 24/7 shit-show that makes for public discourse these days. Unlike my previous social sabbaticals, though, I am struggling to use this […]
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My Purpose
This week I had the most authentically spiritual community experience I’ve ever had… and on Zoom no less. I’m going to try to explain it here, but I feel compelled to mention that words are clumsy, silly things that can’t even begin to express experiences such as these. — — — On Wednesday nights I attend a […]
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May This Body Be At Ease
Last night in my little virtual Zen community, we did something called Metta practice. ‘Metta’ is a Pali word that means something like ‘Loving Kindness’ and our meditation is comprised of four phrases: 1. May this body be at ease 2. May this heart be open 3. May this mind be boundless 4. May you […]
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Paying Attention.
Part of my Zen practice — perhaps the biggest and most important part — is simply paying attention. It came as a shock to me when I first realized that I spend almost no time actually paying attention in my daily life. That distraction is my typical mode of operation — a state of constant, […]
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