
A book in progress, on doing hard things with ease, by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.
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There’s a Zen story that goes:
A monk told Joshu, “I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.”
Joshu asked, “Have you eaten your rice porridge?
The monk replied, “I have eaten.”
Joshu said, “Then you had better wash...
The hardest times in our lives are filled with heightened uncertainty — and that will usually fuel our anxieties, inner patterns of avoidance and control, and more. It all gets tougher when uncertainty is high.
But that isn’t a foregone co...
It’s possible that no single technique has helped me more with facing the tasks I’m resisting than focus sessions.
Focus sessions are something I used to do on my own — I would pick a block of time, pick a hard task, and set a timer. Maybe...
Let me tell you a story about my meditation practice. I struggle with it sometimes — I have been meditating for a long time, and I get a lot out of it, but I always feel busy with other things. And so sometimes I’m inconsistent.
Then I rem...
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