Mar 06 2009
Zen Discipline and Focus
Zazen (meditation), trains our mind to focus and when we can change our focus, we can change our thinking, and our thinking can change our awareness of what is so. It is in this way, that we create our perception of the world.
In zazen, like in all tasks worth mastering, we need to exert effort. Not an effort to force the mind into a denial about what is going on with us, but an effort to focus our mind, whilst at the same time, allowing forceful conflicting thoughts to have their say without opposing them. Because it is only by opposition that conflicting thoughts grow stronger. With full acknowledgement, they have nothing else to say and begin the process of getting resolved, leaving us to create anew, the way we want our lives to be. But there needs to be discipline, dedication and effort to discover what the Zen of life has to offer us.
