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What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.

Brenda Shoshanna

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
Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you’ll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.
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Amazed Honest Precious Simple
Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.
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Action Future Past
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
What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.
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Attention Become Expand Pay
Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.
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Else Events Somewhere Today
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
our joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?
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Absorb Attention Result Themselves
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
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
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
Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.
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Attachment Love Nature
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
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
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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Honesty Simple Writing
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

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