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Observing Yourself and Your Practice

by on February 23, 2010 in Zen

Observing ourselves can be difficult.  Often we find that observing ourselves throws us into a state where we doubt ourselves, we dislike what we see.  We identify with the negative aspects of ourselves instead of just seeing them and forget that we are perfect and complete to begin with. Clarifying and embodying that perfection, that “Lost Coin”, [...]

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Lost Something

Lost Something

by on August 29, 2009 in Zen

photo credit: Flowery *L*u*z*a* In Lost Coin practice we talk about actions being “mechanical” happening on their own, without consciousness. It seems negative but it really isn’t. Because we are mechanical we have a wonderful opportunity for freedom. We do so much asleep imagine what we would do and realize if we just began to [...]

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