A new year, a new slate of resolutions.
Perhaps the biggest resolution at New Year’s is to get fit — start exercising, start eating right, and all that jazz.
But resolutions never last. As you might already know, I’m not a fan of resolutions.
A new year, a new slate of resolutions.
Perhaps the biggest resolution at New Year’s is to get fit — start exercising, start eating right, and all that jazz.
But resolutions never last. As you might already know, I’m not a fan of resolutions.
Zen is a Buddhist philosophy that teaches one to get rid of worldly thoughts. The word Zen originates from ‘cha’an’, a Chinese word, and ‘dhyana’, a Sanskrit word meaning concentration.
Athletes are people who diligently push their bodies to the limits in order to achieve strength, stamina, speed, and power in order to compete at the top level of their respective sports.
The word Zen comes from the Chinese word chan and means to attain enlightenment through meditation. Enlightenment means to awaken, to become aware and to understand the nature of all that is.
What is Zen, and why are so many people interested in it? Is Zen a religion? Why has it become so popular in the West, to the point where the word ‘zen’ is now an adjective (as in, “that’s so zen”)?
You may not know it, but Zen is a significant but only moderately sized sect of Buddhism in Japan. Most Japanese do not regard the Zen sect as particularly special or different from all the other Buddhist sects in Japan, and seem to become confused when Western visitors speak of ‘Zen’ with an apparent significance.
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Zen meditation is the path of awareness. It uses concentration techniques to pull your attention out of your thinking to be present in the moment.