does zen help with drudgery of everyday life.

[Rich]

Re: does zen help with drudgery of everyday life.

As an experienced reactionary, I can say with confidence that my small self is constantly jerked around by my senses, thinking mind and body. One reason I sit is to give my natural, true self an opportunity to grow and become stronger. Sometimes to help with the drudgery, I read and write stuff here.

[disastermouse]

Re: does zen help with drudgery of everyday life.

As an experienced reactionary, I can say with confidence that my small self is constantly jerked around by my senses, thinking mind and body. One reason I sit is to give my natural, true self an opportunity to grow and become stronger. Sometimes to help with the drudgery, I read and write stuff here.

The small stuff seems too be so much a force of habit that it's difficult to let go of such small desires and irritations. Oddly, the 'big stuff' that comes crashing through our lives is much easier to 'drop', IMHO.

Chet

[Jundo]

Re: does zen help with drudgery of everyday life.

The small stuff seems too be so much a force of habit that it's difficult to let go of such small desires and irritations. Oddly, the 'big stuff' that comes crashing through our lives is much easier to 'drop', IMHO.

Chet

Very very true, in my experience. Often, it has been so in my life.

Sometimes I think that I can more instantly and easily touch Wisdom in facing my whole house burning down ... faster then the patience to face washing the dirty windows in my house on a Sunday.

But our practice takes in both, and all of life.

[Taigu]

Re: does zen help with drudgery of everyday life.

So true,Chet and Jundo, the small stuff...like the irritating habit of a friend, the dog barking next door,the missing of this, the late that...But when big things hit: serenity, peace... What a joke I am! It is very humbling to notice how this "hardly anything" drives me nuts!

Taigu