When Awareness Embraces The Senses, It Enlivens

It’s Interesting To Look At Your Children As Line-in Zen Masters Who Can Put Their Finger On Places Where You’re Resistant, Or Thinking Narrowly, In Ways Noone Else Can. You Can Either Lose Your Mind And Your Authenticity In The Process Of Reacting To All That Stuff, Or You Can Use It As The Perfect Opportunity To Grow And Nourish Your Children By Attending To What Is Deepest And Best In Them And In Yourself.

It's Okay That The Mind Drifts Away But You Just Bring It Back.

Perhaps Ultimately, Spiritual Simply Means Experiencing Wholeness And Interconnectedness Directly, A Seeing That Individuality And The Totality Are Interwoven, That Nothing Is Separate Or Extraneous. If You See In This Way, Then Everything Becomes Spiritual In Its Deepest Sense. Doing Science Is Spiritual. So Is Washing The Dishes.

The Zen People From Ancient China, "when You're Walking, Just Walk." It Turns Out To Be The Hardest Thing.

Even Though In Principle We May "know Better", We Routinely Succumb All The Same To The Incessant, Often Frantic And Unexamined Busyness Of Thinking We Have To Get Somewhere Else First Before We Can Rest; Thinking We Need To Get Certain Things Done To Feel We Have Accomplished Something Before We Can Be Happy.