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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!

  • A Haiku by Choshu

    September 7, 2016 | Posted By: Admin | Filed Under:
    The moon in the water,
    Broken & broken again,
    Still it is there.

    It is almost unbelievable, how Zen poets have said things. No other language has been able to rise to such heights. What Choshu is saying:

    The moon in the water,
    Broken & broken again,
    Still it is there.

    because each time wind comes, a wave comes, the moon (in the lake) is broken into thousand pieces. But again the lake becomes silent and all the broken pieces all over the lake start gathering again. Because it is a reflection, the moon is never broken. It is only the reflection that is broken. And because the moon is never broken, it does not matter that its reflection is broken a thousand times. All our bodies, all our minds, all our lives are nothing but the reflection of the real moon... broken a thousand times. Still, in the inner most core of your being, the moon is as full & as perfect as ever.
    - OSHO