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Last night at my meditation group I got in a discussion about goalless practice. This is a Zen thing – the idea that the state you are in at this moment is perfect and goals imply that you are imperfect in this moment and that you need to somehow change. This idea of not having…
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“Once there was a young warrior. Her teacher told her that she had to do battle with fear. She didn’t want to do that. It seemed too aggressive; it was scary; it seemed unfriendly. But the teacher said she had to do it and gave her the instructions for the battle. The day arrived. The…
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A couple of weeks ago I attended the last retreat of this year’s Term Student program at my zen center. Since I shared the mandala from the last one, I thought I would also share this one, too. These are always interesting to draw because there is no forethought put into it. The instruction is…
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I thought for today’s post it would be interesting to take a look at what I was doing 10 years ago. It seems crazy that I can do this on my blog. It is more than 10 years old at this point! 10 years ago I was contemplating becoming vegetarian. Again. Crazy, because here I…
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The zen center I belong to is going through precepts study at the moment, so I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about them lately. During this study period you are supposed read them every morning and then the idea is that the wisdom bubbles up into your daily life. The reading of them in the…
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