Zen and the neuro-diverse brain

[Shonin]

So I basically just learned to "deal with it" ( ADD). I cant really say I have any special coping techniques. I do find it hard to sit zazen when my head is full of unrelated nonsense but it seems to calm down after I maintain a regular sitting habit. I just start slow and ease myself back into it then increase the length as I become more accustomed to it.
Dave
SAT/LAH

[Heiso]

I first learned to meditate because I couldn't concentrate on my studies and wanted to learn some techniques to slow my brain down. Generic meditation led me to Buddhism which led me to Zen and here I am some 12 years later. Then at the beginning of this year I was diagnosed with ADHD and now I know why I needed to slow my brain down!

Gassho,

Heiso

StLah

[Tai Shi]

Zen and the neuro-diverse brain

David I find the same thing lol. Every morning that I am able, I sit with Onkai and friends at 8:30 . What a great experience with others from our Zendo and I follow right along with the Shikantaza and it takes me a few minutes of saying The Serenity Prayer actually as Neighbr wrote it with emphasis on her and him changing at the beginning knowing that In the next month I will change more than I have since I was 22 the fall of 1974; especially October is a time of change weather spring, fall, in between . Maybe we might think of Shikantaza as change. Thank goodness there is change or we would all be dead. Think of parts of the Heart Sutra while you try to settle into Shikantaza. I love dipping into memory for it has allowed me to live morally in my old age. Yes for you David.
Gassho
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[Tai Shi]

David I find the same thing lol. Every morning that I am able, I sit with Onkai and friends at 8:30 . What a great experience with others from our Zendo and I follow right along with the Shikantaza and it takes me a few minutes of saying The Serenity Prayer actually as Neighbr wrote it with emphasis on her and him changing at the beginning knowing that In the next month I will change more than I have since I was 22 the fall of 1974; especially October is a time of change weather spring, fall, in between . Maybe we might think of Shikantaza as change. Thank goodness there is change or we would all be dead. Think of parts of the Heart Sutra while you try to settle into Shikantaza. I love dipping into memory for it has allowed me to live morally in my old age. Yes for you David.
Gassho
sat/ lah


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[Tai Shi]

What is more important to us if we do act less absolutely. Thank goodness there are no absolutes there lol is simply a range for emotions, intellectual, reality, fiction. Fiction and the individual life is what keeps happening intertwined with reality and life and death,?and earth and sky and matter, energy and space, this is what Einstein shoed in most difficult ways I cannot comprehend. Only today so I have read are we aware just how right he was. These are parts of the Theory of Relativity only now understood. Thus he describes In beauty the natural and the greatest humanity can comprehend so for and then a few of us.
Gassho
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[Hōkan]

I first learned to meditate because I couldn't concentrate on my studies and wanted to learn some techniques to slow my brain down. Generic meditation led me to Buddhism which led me to Zen and here I am some 12 years later. Then at the beginning of this year I was diagnosed with ADHD and now I know why I needed to slow my brain down!

Gassho,

Heiso

StLah

I have been wondering of most people who are religious converts are neuro-diverse. I suspect that my different-working brain helped bring me to Zen.

Sat so much today and always and everything sat with me.