Deciding to Start Zen
The decision to start Zen could be treated more like a decision to start taking a painting class at the local adult education center. You could go to one class and not go back, or go for one quarter, or keep going for ten years, or keep going until you die. I guess I also disagree with the people who say this is a really big deal and is going to be real hard work and you have to really make a commitment or else the whole thing is a complete waste of time. Wrong! The thing about Zen is that, and this fits in with my theory that’s basically about rewiring your neurons, or neuroplasticity if you prefer fancy words, you do a little bit of it and experience a little effect or do more of it and experience more or do a whole lot and become an enlightened Zen master. It’s linearly scalable, in other words. If you started off by going to a dojo once a week and sitting with them, and maybe meditating 30 minutes per day, then after a month or two no, you would not have some kind of life-changing realization, but you would notice changes in the way you look at things which would be refreshing and helpful. A little bit of rewiring.
There is another thing about Zen which is sort of like the way that when you work out at the gym, your body changes in a way which helps you be more fit and healthy even when you don’t work out, you consume calories more efficiently, etc. As you keep doing Zen, by which I mean meditation, not reading books or listening to talks, you develop the ability over time to use every moment to enhance the way you view the world, not just when you’re meditating. Or to put it another way, you sort of learn to meditate as you’re going about your daily life, or conversely, you begin to see that your daily life is a kind of meditation, or perhaps that meditation is nothing more than a sort of concentrated form of daily life. As you get there, you might find yourself wanting to meditate more, and kick it up to two 30-minute sessions per day, as opposed to a thought process that says hey, I’m supposed to be doing this Zen thing, gotta work harder at it, I told myself I was really going to get into this, so I gotta buckle down.
April 5th, 2013 at 07:21
sorry mate
i am practical man – no time for something called Zen
what is Zen
Meditation? – Like buddhists meditate?
Sit crossleg meditate?
Sorry, maybe i don’t understand this article
– p.p.
April 6th, 2013 at 03:13
I looked ZEN in encyclopedia – now i undersatan
ZEN – form of Buddhism widely used in Japan
mediation
to throw doubt on conventional logic
Zen in practice
I am in magistrates court accused of displaying words
STOP SATAN JEW ATOM BOMB WESTMINSTER
Do you plead guilty or not guilty
my reply
I stand here to STOP SATAN JEW ATOM BOMB WESTMINSTRER
magistrate is here to make it easy for satan jew atom bomb westminster
how to resolve this logic?
Zen
As at Apollo and Marsyas – 9 judges chosen by agreement
as at Socrates – 500 judges chosen by lot decide by ballot
My Zen
I stand for 500 as at Socrates or Death
that is my Zen
paul pawlowski, Keeper
Muzeum Sczytaja 50m Himalaya
April 7th, 2013 at 02:12
Golden Satan blocking my access to iraq war ru by Enforcement
EPLA is preventing Golden Satan ATOM BOMB WESTMINSTER
EPLA is preventing Golden Satan atom bomb Pyongyang Tehran
Golden satan is rounding up Soldiers of English People’s Liberation Army
- Golden Satan is getting ready to ex-judiciary hang soldiers of the English Peoples Liberation Army on the quiet behind prison walls as in first hours of 2WW
I am 87 years old
I worked in tool making from the age of 14 to the age of 77 — i worked 12 years past the retirement age all those years i was paying National Insurance contributions
When i retired at 77 I had two pensions
280.44 pm company pension
635.24 pm Newcastle pension
Now Newcastle cut off my pension leaving me to live on 280 pm
70 pw company pension
I am Soldier of the English Peoples Liberation Army
on duty standing guard preventing Golden Satan ATOM BOMB WESTMINSTER
Newcastle stopped my pension make it easy for Golden Satan
ATOM BOMB WRSTMINSTER atom bomb pyongyang atom bomb tehran make limited nuclear war
Therefore
I have no choice but stop Direct Debit payment to Council Tax
Stop Direct Debit to South East Water
Stop Direct Debit to Southern Water
Stop Direct Debit to EDF electric
I am asking Taxman please do not tax my 70 pw company pension
Vote for ME
Let voice of republican England be heard in parliament
Victory to the English People’s Liberation Army
EPLA will keep Golden Satan in garden for re-education
paul pawlowski, Keeper
Muzeum Sczytaja 50m Himalaya