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If you're interested in conscious living, then likely you're just as equally interested in Zen but simply not knowingly interested.

Usually Zen is associated with Japanese culture and religious or Buddhism practice, but true Zen (or at least the way this site uses the term) is emphasizing the value of conscious living.

Zen and conscious living come together and go hand-in-hand. Hence, conscious living without Zen is a huge oversight and vice-versa because these are not two.

"Conscious Flex: Zen & Conscious Living" is designed to offer a partnership of how these seemingly two are actually one movement.

Zen is the foundational spaciousness or presence from which conscious living derives. In the same manner that an artist, inventor or intuitive actions come from the stillness in the silence of non-movement.

In other words, Zen is a resting in the powerful space of not thinking about thought, not doing anything about doing, not trying to be the solver or understander, the knower collector but simply allowing the intelligence of life to flow through you and as you.

What is described can be thought of as meditation or accessing our intuition, but it's actually just natural living.

Often you will see kids in a natural resting space or presence and we tell them "snap out of it" because we think they are in "lala land" or "fantasy land" and not paying attention but actually they are simply being completely present with what is. It's natural to just rest and be, that's the flow from which insight and wisdom arises from.

Hence, conscious living is also the natural flow of how life organically expands upon itself. Consequently, conscious living is Zen living, when it's pure and without conceptual overlays.

Enjoy!

  • Learning from nature

    February 27, 2016 | Posted By: Admin | Filed Under:
    Be as nature is:

    Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
    ~Lao Tzu

    Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
    ~Zenrin Kushu

    The water of the valley stream never shouts at the tainted world: “Purify yourself!”
    But naturally, as it is, shows how it is done.
    ~Ryokan

    You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to sail.
    ~Jon Kabat-Zinn

    Look at the stream, there are rocks in its way. Does it slam into them out of frustration? It simply flows over and around them and moves on! Be like the water and you will know what harmony is.
    ~Zen saying

    Obey the nature of things, and you are in concord with the Way; Calm and easy and free from annoyance.
    ~Xinxin Ming: Faith in Mind