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After having a religious crisis sometime in my teenage years, I abandoned many aspects of my spiritual life.  I would want to keep everything logical, I wanted to know the truth about things and did not want to hear any ambiguous or “fluffy” answers.  Additionally, if I was right about something, I was self-righteous about…

Today you can rush to work, or you could choose to stop on your way and observe the morning, truly observe and feel it. Feel the air moving and observe how it makes the leaves on the trees flicker.  Observe how little animals move around, blissfuly unaware that the world is going to end one…

Deep down we all have a few things in common, we want avoid suffering and instead we want to be happy and fulfilled.  The path we each take to get there is unique, but our end goal is the same.  Understanding this and keeping it in mind throughout my days is probably one of the…

Over the past few days I have been re-reading a book I bought about a year or two ago.  The book is Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus).  When I first read the book I remember that my impression was that it was an easy-to-read book with light content about Zen, meditating, and grounding ourselves.…

Take a moment, and observe what is going on through your mind.  Don’t judge your thoughts, don’t try to change them, simply observe them.  See what gives rises to certain negative thoughts, think about the source of these thoughts.  Why do you have this negative reaction?  Is it necessary?  Is it saving you from trouble?…

As a child, I often heard people say, “After the storm comes the calm.”  The belief is that a turmoil, whether we are talking about psychological or physical, can only last for a finite time, and after this finite time things will be calmer, better.  This way of thinking is supposed to lift our spirits…

Many of my friends wonder how I can stay upbeat and happy for what seems like… all the time. How can I be so terribly optimistic, and how do I keep my thoughts on the lighter side. Truth is, I wasn’t always like this, and even now I have my emotional times.  There are many things I’ve learned, and…