What is Zen?
Zen is the fine art of paying attention. It is mindfulness. It is being as opposed to doing. It means fully inhabiting one's self in the present moment. It is bringing your full attention and
presence to whatever you’re doing.
Zen is a way of living. Anyone can practice Zen. It is not a religion.
Living in a Zen way means when you
eat, eat. When you work, work. It means being fully present and showing up for your life. In the words of Ram Dass, "Be here now."
Sounds easy right?
Most of us live mindlessly. We go about our lives with an endless to do list running in our heads. We are either in the future focused on what we are going to do next, or playing out old scenarios from the past. Rarely are we ever fully in the moment.
Zen is about becoming still. Zen requires that you slow down enough to center yourself in the moment. Life becomes your meditation.
When you live your life mindfully, each moment becomes its own reward.
Life takes on an incredible richness.
When you live from the center of your being, you begin to flow with the river of life. When you are in the flow of life, you can hear your life speak to you. You begin to experience your unique rhythms, and your being begins to dance in harmony to the rhythm of life. Life unfolds
the way it is meant to be. It ceases to be a struggle.
Most of us are in the river of life desperately trying to swim upstream. We are overbooked, frantic, and living in overdrive.
