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I work as a hypnotherapist and am fascinated by the potential of the human mind. Back in the 1970s, after a lot of searching, I discovered Zen, a powerful and profound way of spiritual and self realisation.
The way of Zen is a discipline that I practi
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It is Not a Question of Having or Doing, but Being….
The “I-am” consciousness is not so much about what we do in life, but about who we are in life. A state of being. We do not achieve or do enlightenment, but recognize enlightenment in our own space of being, because we already are e...
The Profound in the Mundane.
The practice of zazen isn’t strictly speaking a meditation, more of a mind focus. It is the basis of Zen practice which is the intention of becoming mindful, recognizing that there is only now, that the past is gone and future is not yet. It i...
Being Present on the Path
When I am totally present, focused on the here and now, I am totally detached from what was and from what will be. I can stay on the path to enlightenment if I can stay focused on what is. This is my objective in zazen. I then need to extend th...
Creating our Life
One of the secrets of getting what we want out of life, is to free ourselves from past karma. Karma can be very deep as one of the vows generally uttered before zazen (Zen meditation) can attest to… “Endless blind passions I vow to uproo...
When Life Is Meaningless: TheJourney, Not the Destination
During my life, I have desired many things and achieved those desires many times, but after a while, I got to feel that my achievements didn’t mean anything and my achievements simply got replaced with new desires. And so I continue on my path&...
Finding Peace: Illusion?
The world we experience with our five senses is a linear arrangement of events. According to many spiritual disciplines, we are in this life to transcend all the events. Our transcendence will allow us to view the linear events of our life as an illu...
Sharing Zen
Zen isn’t exactly something that it taught. Zen is more about individuals sharing their experiences of higher states of consciousness. This act of sharing is an invitation to those seeking enlightenment to examine the shared experiences for the...
For Me. It Has to Be Zen
I see forgiveness as another word for closure. When whatever has happened, and whoever was involved in a life-event, to be released from the karma of that situation, we need to be OK with the fact that it has happened; for if we are not OK we w...
Karma is Karma in Spiritual Awareness
Meditation can often be like checking in with my karma in order to resolve it. This life, past life, imaginary - it makes no difference. Karma is karma and we react to it until it is resolved and we can see if for the illusion it really ...
Permanent Zen?
So…. If meaning can be realised, would it be permanent, or subject to decay? Is there anything in our experience that has been permanent? Those little satoris (insights) experienced in zazen (meditation) become meaningless as soon as contemplat...
Zen and Understanding
In a Zen seminar I attended once, I shared with the group that I couldn’t understand quite what enlightenment was… “Ah but understanding is the booby prize,” came the reply “The prize that you get when you think you̵...
Another Zen Koan Perhaps…
A Zen koan can only be answered with the Self, and not with the intellect. So according to Zen, this post holds nothing at all. But it just may point to the answer, which is the Self. I begin to see life on earth as an illusion because no sooner is a...
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Giving is the ultimate gift to all, and includes Self. "For-giving" suggests giving in advance and what I give with forgiveness is the space for the other to be as they are in advance. So if I can do that, all is already forgiven. In Zen-speak that i...
I Can Only Be Who I Am.
Anything that promotes individual self-improvement promotes separation. Anything that promotes Self as All, promotes enlightenment. So no one separate person is enlightened apart from another. This is not a concept hat I can grasp and understand inte...
Dreaming the Dream
Enlightenment is also known as the Great Awakening, which means that until we reach this state, our life is but a dream, an illusion.As a dreamer, can it be so difficult to convince myself that what I am looking at is a dream?...
Life's Lessons.
I think most people do their utmost not to cheat, but unfortunately, life and love may not be so black and white as that. It may be a person's karma to meet somebody some day that it is spiritually necessary to be with, and an overwhelming force comp...
Knowing and Not Knowing
How can I receive enlightenment if I have beliefs and concepts of what is it that is standing in the way of the truth that I already know it? Knowing nothing is the only way I am going to realise it....
Already Enlightened
To realise enlightenment is what I seek. If I am seeking it in meditation is this not evidence that there something to seek? Something that is already there? As a Zen master would say to his students, “you are already enlightened”....
Light and Dark
It seems that when the light of enlightenment comes, it penetrates darkness and exposes all illusions that lurk in the darkness. By meditation and focus on the moment of now, I am penetrating illusion - light illuminates darkness, that cannot contin...
