LIVING WELL “Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.
If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can fl ow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” ~ Bruce Lee
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"When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart." ~ Muso Soseki
of mindfulness that you can cultivate to bring more joy and freedom into your daily life.
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“A well-constructed Zen garden is an evocative work of art that draws the viewer into a state of contemplation…and the viewer's mind eventually comes to rest in a state of emptiness, which is the goal of Zen practice.” ~ Chris Deziel
The best way to construct your mental Zen garden is medi- tation. Meditation is as simple as setting aside twenty minutes each day to relax, close your eyes, and quiet your mind. It is an act of acceptance and stillness. You will have thoughts, and that’s
our mind is a wild, overgrown patch. By taming this land you can strip away all the clutter and create a space of beauty and serenity. A Zen garden is a wonderful example
ok. Just allow those thoughts to fl oat into your awareness and fl oat away. Keep coming back to a space that is uncluttered and serene, just like a Zen garden. The most important aspect of this practice is repetitiveness.
The more you do it the greater the benefi ts. For example, imagine your mind as a plot of land with large boulders. These boulders are anger, resentment, judgment, and past pain. Without medita- tion your mind is full of thick vines that are interwoven with these boulders, using them to prop themselves up. When you have a situation arise your mind reacts from this overgrown, entwined place. Meditation goes in and clears away the vines of your busy “monkey mind” and creates rivulets so when a situation arises your mind can bump up against these boulders and effortlessly go around them, like the fl ow of water. You now react from this open, fl owing space to the events in your daily life.
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