Healing Energy Share for Sunday

March 19, 2006

Zen and Excitement

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

It is necessary for us to keep the constant way. If you become too busy and too excited, your mind becomes rough and ragged. If possible, try to be calm and joyful and keep yourself from excitement. Usually we become busier and busier, day by day, year by year, especially in our modern world. If we revisit old, familiar places after a long time, we are astonished by the changes. It cannot be helped. But if we become interested in some excitement, or in our own change, we become completely involved in our busy life, and we will be lost.

But if your mind is calm and constant, you can keep yourself away from the noisy world even though you are in the midst of it. Just continue in your calm, ordinary practice and your character will be built up. If your mind is always busy, there will be no time to build and you will not be successful, particularly if you work too hard on it.

Building character is like making bread - you have to mix it little by little, step by step, and moderate temperature is needed. You know yourself quite well, and you know how much temperature you need. You know exactly what you need.

To some, this unexciting way of practice may appear to be very negative, but this is not so. It is a wise and effective way to work on ourselves. It is just very plain. On the other hand, it may seem this is about gradual attainment. This is not so either.

In fact, this is the sudden way, because when your practice is calm and ordinary, everyday life itself is enlightenment.

an excerpt from Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, by Shunryu Suzuki

I gratefully acknowledge and accept the boost of energy from you. Help yourself to the boost I send to you and enjoy it fully.

Namaste (I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells),

Lydia

1. Lydia Smith-Lenardson, Moreno Valley, California, USA

2. Lynn Wilson, Manchester, England, UK

3. Judy Oliver,Vienna, Virginia, USA

4. Joan Anderson, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

5. Wyatt Waro, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

6. Sandra Richer, Banff, Alberta, Canada

7. Lena Goon, Banff, Alberta, Canada

8. Mari Hayama, Berkeley, California, USA

9. Veronica Hansen, Sarina, Queensland, Australia

10. Mirjam Kik, Oude, Tonge, The Netherlands

11. Andy Cooper, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China

12. Sheryl Morris, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

13. Andy Yantha, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

14. Karen Becker, Carver, Minnesota, USA

15. Linda Prucha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

16. Joseph Bennett, Ventura, California, USA

17. Steve and Karen Edwards, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England

18. Rev. Patricia Lusher, Berlin, Vermont, USA

19. Brian Ramage, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

20. Brian Yeates, Dublin, Ireland

21. Dunni Olasehan, Lagos, Nigeria

22. Austin Ndego, Lagos, Nigeria

23. Gurjinder Strom, Miami, Florida, USA

24. Natasha Adair, Olney Springs, Colorado, USA