I have a broken Buddha statue sitting on my desk. It feels like a perfect metaphor for where my life was in 2020. I keep my Buddha on my desk in front of me, surrounded by other decorations – or “desk-orations”, as I call them – which encourage me when I write. Most of my […]
Blending Self-Improvement with Zen
To me, spirituality is more than a fad or a way to appear wiser than I really am. I use it as inspiration to improve myself. Some teachers say that trying to change yourself at all is misguided and pointless. They believe that spirituality – Zen in particular – is about accepting who you are […]
Zen, Business, and the Natural State
I’m back in my natural state again today. It occurred during the middle of having a Skype-message chat with Andrea. For the third time, I was already in it before I realized I was. So first the state and then the recognition of it. What that means is that the student of awareness has an […]