Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you ‘should’ become. Find out who you are right now.
BRENDA SHOSHANNAWho 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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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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Don’t become bitter and spend all your time focusing on that which the person is not able to provide.
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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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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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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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From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).
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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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The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.
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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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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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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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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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If one’s sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.
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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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Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.
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