Tag Archives: self-observation

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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Banishing Fear

by on January 12, 2010 in Zen

Thoughts on fear: The more conscious you are, the less fear you have. Exercise.  We don’t feel fear consciously.  No one says “I’ll get up in the morning, have a cup of coffee, then be scared to death.”  The minute we are aware of fear it starts to fade since it wasn’t conscious to begin [...]

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