They say that Zen is a system of contradictions and that just when we think we are beginning to understand it, it turns things on their head and we are back to square one. This is a deliberate way of helping us to change our perspective and not to become trapped by our own thought … Continue reading Being
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Moving mountains
The ‘accidental miracle’ that brought each and every one of us into being, the process of chance meetings and love affairs, embryos born from the earth, fed star dust in the womb, growing into a physical human from a collection of fluid particles – this being we are, made from constituent parts of the universe, … Continue reading Moving mountains
Waterfall droplet
This conundrum of life, this seemingly incompatible, duality of being the individual we know we are, and yet being one and the same with everything, simultaneously - it's not really much of a conundrum at all. You are you and I am I, he, she, they...we are all individual parts of one whole. All the … Continue reading Waterfall droplet
Mind-Body
Mind-Body We cannot separate mind from body nor body from mind in this realm within which we dwell. When we are hungry we feel it in both, just as when we are angry our mind flares with the emotion as our heart race quickens and our stomachs clench. When we train our bodies, we train … Continue reading Mind-Body
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