A small child walks into a hardware store with his parents. He doesn’t register the screws and nuts or any of the other materials he has no prior knowledge of, but does see the display of brightly coloured buckets and spades and is instantly drawn there. The father, who has been working on a DIY … Continue reading Awakening
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Being
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
Beginner Vs Expert
We are all beginners at some point in our lives, just as we are all experts at certain things, things we have practiced countless times until we have become proficient. We may feel clumsy, as a beginner. We may find the path difficult and feel the urge to give up and often we do not … Continue reading Beginner Vs Expert
Labels
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." * Names help us to make sense of the world. Humankind has bestowed names for things as far back as history tracks and for the majority, this desire to label things, to give a unique identity, to categorize and organise, has offered some way of … Continue reading Labels
The Answer
When you think of a maths puzzle, and you work your brain to solve the equation - the answer doesn't just suddenly exist because you've thought of it. The answer was always there, existing in its own right, to be discovered or not. Discovery does not affect its existing, just as a tree will still … Continue reading The Answer
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