Zen Self Development

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Having been a Zen practitioner and therapist (30+ years), this network is for those passionate about all forms of spiritual development.

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Thank you for sharing Drew. That is right on with my philosophy of life. Acceptance and allowance is true mastery. The Buddha discovered in his enlightenment that it is only desire that is the cause of suffering in life. Full and true acceptance bri…
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Things happen in phases. That's just how it is. Allow them to happen. Ever beaten yourself up because you don't keep up everything at once? Let your website go out of date? Forgot to check your mailing list for a week? Didn't ring your friend for m…
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I tend to wipe myself out from time to time and it doesn't bother me one bit - except that I feel sorry for people who responded to stuff I did or wrote. I am not gone. I am. I simply am. Here and there and everywhere and today, I had a great demo…
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Drew Leslie

Phases

Things happen in phases. That's just how it is. Allow them to happen.

Ever beaten yourself up because you don't keep up everything at once? Let your website go out of date? Forgot to check your mailing list for a week? Didn't ring your friend for months, then spoke three times in a week, then another 3 months of silence? Let it go.

Its not about scrapping your To Do list. Its about not thinking you have to do all that stuff you were so keen on LAST year. It's THIS year now, things change, it m… Continue

Posted by Drew Leslie on April 1, 2009 at 8:49am — 1 Comment

Joy

Very zen, I suppose

I tend to wipe myself out from time to time and it doesn't bother me one bit - except that I feel sorry for people who responded to stuff I did or wrote.

I am not gone. I am. I simply am.

Here and there and everywhere and today, I had a great demonstration of the zen idea. May write about it, but not until about a week or so from now.

In a nutshell, mainly this.

Found a wonderful new home. Wanted desperately to be there NOW (no, yesterday!) instead of here. Made me miserable. (SEE!)

Accepte… Continue

Posted by Joy on February 7, 2009 at 5:52pm

Derek

When Life Means Nothing. It just Is.

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In my zazen (Zen meditation) this morning, my mind was not as still as I would have desired it to be, and I decided to let go of my discipline, go with the flow and just obeser… Continue

Posted by Derek on January 18, 2009 at 10:33am — 1 Comment

Derek

Consciousness: Scary or not...

Ultimately, what is the purpose of knowing? What is the purpose of being conscious? I get to thinking of consciousness and how it is used. It seems that I am conscious in order to grow and develop knowledge, and the function of that knowledge is my survival. Otherwise, why accumulate knowledge? If I know more, I can know what to do to live my life on earth. I can survive.

These are pretty scary implications to think that the need for consciousness is just to survive on this earth. The ego is no… Continue

Posted by Derek on December 21, 2008 at 9:39am — 6 Comments

Derek

Infinity

How can I be separated from Infinity? For if I was to be separate, then how could Infinity exist? That’s not possible for I can perceive it, even if it's simply to vast for me to reach it's endlessness.

So as I am part of Infinity, I simply to need to expand my consciousness to realise that infinity it exists in everything and everything exists in infinity. One of the most powerful paradoxes I know, or should I say "don't know"..

Posted by Derek on December 8, 2008 at 4:31pm

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