Zoom Meeting: Tuesday Eve: Jan 10, 2023. 7:00 pm Mountain Time There is an intersection between Eastern enlightenment, teachings and Native American wisdom that can be accessed when we let the concepts that are confusing us in our minds relax. This allows our natural intuition, our natural normal self, to start interacting with the world. …
Jan 8 23: Sweetgrass and Zen
Published: Sun, 01/08/23
Everyone You Meet
This week’s Zen stories are telling us that the enlightened master, the enlightened person, is a very simple ordinary person… in fact the enlightened person might be the only ordinary person. This is the only person who is not hankering to become something else, or pretending to be something else. This is important to understand …
Mullas Clothes
So one day, Mulla Nasrudin showed up in a nearby town for an appointment, stark naked. Everyone was shocked. They’re like, “Mulla! What’s the deal? What’s going on?” Mulla shrugged and said, “I was in such a hurry to get dressed, I forgot my clothes.” The ordinary spiritual teacher can be spacey too.
Looking for Ordinariness
This week’s Zen stories are about ordinariness. And just think. You don’t have to strive for ordinariness. You don’t have to look for that. All you have to do is relax because you are already it.
Bankai The Gardener
A long time ago in the land of Zen, there was a great master whose name was Bankai. He had a small ashram up in the mountains, and disciples would come traveling up to find him. One day he was out working in the garden and such a fellow came along. This seeker walked up …
Save You From the Search
Save You From the Search My goal is to save you from the spiritual search. Crazy idea, huh? The reason is because life needs you. As long as you are searching for life, we don’t have the full you participating here with the rest of us. You’re Better Than You Think My experience is …
13. Thinking Meditation
OK, now finally. Let’s really fool ourselves into meditation. Think. Close your eyes and sit there and try hard to think about something. This will be most effective if you have some big problem going on. Or maybe you’re studying for a test. That would be perfect… to sit there and think over and over …
12. Easy Meditation Access with Laughter
Today is a good day to not get too full of ourselves. We’re really good meditators now… right? We know how to be in bliss. We’re on the path. We’re highly evolved… No. No, what we’re trying to become is really, really ordinary. So, in this lesson, I am teaching the most important meditation technique. …
