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Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers.

Brenda Shoshanna

Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you ‘should’ become. Find out who you are right now.
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Practice Should Worry
It is a mistake to expect all of our needs to be met by one person or in one relationship. Honor and be grateful for that which you receive.
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Mistake Relationship Time
This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.
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Blooming Love Loving Relationship
The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.
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Change Goes Nature
What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.
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Attention Become Expand Pay
Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.
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Home Practice Pride
Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies.
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Different People Something Want
Don’t become bitter and spend all your time focusing on that which the person is not able to provide.
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Focusing Person Provide Time
A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we’re headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.
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Choices Knowing Time
We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply.
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Beggar Coming Relationship Source Supply
In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.
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Giving Relationship Time
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).
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Anger Ignorance Views
Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.
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Action Future Past
When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are.
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Love Relationship Space
Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.
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Bases Change Lives Our
When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide.
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House Relationship Treasure

Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers.

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