I met with my life coach and on my recent travels heard and saw some good advice to follow. These are a few that I noted down and have put firmly on my radar. The first might be the encapsulation of all of them – it’s someone else’s refrigerator mantra but I’m borrowing it: Decide how you want to live and who you want to be then begin to align your thoughts with the self…
The zen temple down the street has started offering dharma talks after the meditation on Sunday mornings and the topic has been Genjo Koan, which was written in 1233 by Eihei Dogen, founder of the Soto Zen tradition. The “issue at hand” is the koan of everyday life. And so let’s just start with that. As I kneeled in the corner, facing the wall, meditating and practicing the tradition of letting thoughts come and go,…