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Zen Buddhism Teaches Us of the Importance of Living in the Present

By Tim Lott — 2012

Forget about learning from the past and applying those lessons to the future: reclaim and expand the present moment.

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Buddhism vs. Zen

Zen is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China, when Buddhists were introduced to Taoists.

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Zen and the Beat Way

Well, in the same way, all sorts of things that we believe to be real--time, past and future, for instance--exist only conventionally. A person who lives for the future, who (like most of us) makes his happiness dependent upon what is coming in the future, is living within an illusion. - Alan Watts

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Alan Watts
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What Unites Buddhism and Psychotherapy? One Therapist Has the Answer.

In The Zen of Therapy, Mark Epstein weaves together two ways of understanding how humans can feel more settled in their lives.

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Oliver Burkeman
2022
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Poet Jane Hirshfield on the Mystery of Existence

Writer Kim Rosen raises questions about Zen, openness, and the “desperation” of the creative process.

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Kim Rosen
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Doubt & Faith: A Zen Meditation

I follow a way of doubt. I follow a way of energy, sometimes even a way of wrath. But, in the last analysis I’ve found this way is one of putting down my opinions and opening up my heart.

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James Ford
2021
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Happy Together

When we stop focusing on ourselves, we begin to see that our happiness is dependent on the happiness of all beings. Gaylon Ferguson examines the political, social, and environmental implications.

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Gaylon Ferguson
2011
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A Zen Master Explains Life and Death to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind

“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.”

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Maria Popova
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Wilderness Birthed the Mind

As the Earth radically changes, what happens to the wisdom that it has to offer us?

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Matthew Gindin
2019
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Zen 101: A Brief Introduction to Zen Buddhism

You've heard of Zen. You may even have had moments of Zen—instances of insight and a feeling of connectedness and understanding that seem to come out of nowhere. But what exactly is Zen?

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Barbara O'Brien
2019
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Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy

Zen aims at the perfection of personhood. To this end, sitting meditation called “za-zen” is employed as a foundational method of prāxis across the different schools of this Buddha-Way—which is not an ideology, but a way of living.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2019
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