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Stop Trying to Become Enlightened: Start Asking Whether Your Zen Actually Works
This ten-part series grows out of The Last Turtle: Zero and the Search for Effective Zen. Each essay takes one idea from the book and gives it room to breathe: activity, Zero, stillness, effectiveness, frameworks, direct experience, practic...
Why Zazen?
Why Zazen?
What if the problem isn’t your unruly mind, but the way in which you understand it?
What if the real issue isn’t that you think too much, become distracted too easily, or lack sufficient concentration? What if the problem is...
Zen and Expedient Means
Zen and Expedient Means
One of the most common objections to Zen—especially from students who have taken the time to study classical Buddhism—is that Zen teachers often say things that appear plainly wrong. Not merely puzzling, but con...
What Is Zen?
What Is Zen?
Ask ten Zen practitioners what Zen is and you may receive ten different answers.
Zen is being present. Zen is direct experience. Zen is seeing things as they are. Zen is nonattachment. Zen is awakening. Zen is just sitting....
Everything Arises, Everything Returns
Zero in Daily Life: Everything Arises, Everything Returns
There is something reassuring about permanence. We build houses as though they will stand. We enter relationships as though they will continue. We develop careers as though the or...
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I would guess that many of us often ask ourselves: What should I be doing at this exact moment? The many buddhas and Zen masters have shown that there is an answer. It comes from walking the path that I call Zen Optimism.
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