Ideological Foolishness
We get “caught” in our beliefs, and find ourselves blocked, in pain, and unaware. This articles explains the power of ideologies, and how to identify and overcome them.
Non-Habitual Living and Being
The way we view our lives, and ‘reality’ is not true. In fact, it’s simply an unconscious habit. Learn ways to recognize habitual thinking and behaving, and then, learn how to change it.
Unstuffing from Stuff
Left to our own devices, we are defined by our stuff. We collect stuff to protect ourselves from emptiness. And yet, we see that stuff does not last. In this article, we look at ways to simply be, while letting go of the stuff we cling to.
Nothing to Cling To
I think my motivation for this article has been the last month or so, as I’ve noted the deteriorating political situation in most of the Middle East, and in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and even in the cliché laden US primaries. Not to sit up here in Canada and preach, as we’ve got our own dramas.
The other thing was the market fluxuations. I got to thinking about how the world seems to be shifting a bit, or a lot, and how interesting the times could be, for folk not well grounded in themselves.
I suspect that might include a pile of people, as depth is not a prized characteristic. Clinging, on the other hand, is. Here, in no particular order are 10 things we cling to-
Small, Consistent Steps
Sure, everyone knows: “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” “The road to anywhere begins with the first step,” or even, “Begin with the end in mind.”
So, why is this Zen Living, this making changes, this doing life differently, such a struggle?
There are four things that hinder us: finger pointing, stubbornness, lethargy, and magical thinking. Today, we explore each, and propose a small, consistent step.
The Complexity of Simplicity
Perhaps nothing is more important than truly grasping the paradoxical nature of reality. Most of us hate paradox—we want things to be simple, predictable, and emphatically, we want things to be the way we think they ought to be. Flying in the face of our little foot-stomping rants about how things ‘ought to be’ is ‘how things are.’ I call this side of the equation reality.
Zen Based, Present Living
