Living a graceful life that has meaning and happiness is an art anyone can master,
Essentially, that is what ZEN is about; a state free from conditioning, so that the mind can rest and rejoice, so it may go with the flow of life without the anxiety to always get somewhere.
Life is here, just now.
This is awakening in a nutshell: to have a graceful response to everything that life throws at you, without losing serenity and inner calm.
Life and our emotions need not be as serious an affair as we have made it to be.We tend to take ourselves too seriously, making that as the root cause of our agony.
Whenever something does not fit in our conceptual reference,we struggle to cope with it.When the mind that is full of conditioning starts to empty itself by way of mindfulness and natural awareness,a sort of calm arises to the brim of our consciousness.
Unlike other forms of meditation where you go through rigorous practices to tame your mind. , in ZEN everything you need to be happy is HERE.You do not have to concentrate or build concentration, sit down in one rigid posture,
Walking, eating,doing the dishes.everything we do in life can be done in a manner that it turns into meditation..
The way a child lives merrily. or atleast freely, from one moment to another, a ZEN practitioner aims to be mindful of the natural flow of life.
Therefore ZEN says, let me simply focus on my mind in a state of bloom -like how a flower blooms in Spring-the world is automatically beautiful.
ZEN is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China.
(Tattvaloka magazine, Aug 2023)
A good choice for a New Year Resolution-Live life the ZEN way.
By Admin