This one started out as a post I wrote a few years back about how to use Zen principles to massively boost your productivity. Now, here’s the incredible thing though: It’s still true to this day that the very same principle I explain in this guide is still the only reason why I’m able to […]
5 Key Principles for Building a Social Circle from Scratch
I wrote this guide by request many years ago, when I was teaching a lot of social dynamics to people who wanted to improve their social lives, work connections, or even their dating lives. It’s a talk I’d given before a few times, but I’d asked for it in writing, so this is what I […]
Meditation | Zen Explained Simply
Meditation is simple, and enlightenment is simple. I want to show you exactly what they are. Right here, right now. I want you to pretend that you know absolutely nothing, like a newborn baby. Don’t try to stop your thoughts. Remember, you’re a baby. You don’t yet know the difference between the noise of a […]
Munen: No Thought | Zen Explained Simply
I had a friend a good many years ago, who suffered a great deal when making the most trivial decisions. You would invite him to a party and watch him slowly unravel, spouting endless procrastinations and second guessing himself to the point where he was unable to make any decision at all. When the mind […]
Why You Are the Universe Itself | Zen Explained Simply
If you were to gather all of your friends and exclaim, “I am the universe, and so are all of you!” you would probably stop getting invited to parties. However, if you were among Physicists or Zen people, they instead would congratulate you for realizing your basic inseparability from the ongoing process that we call […]
Shoshin: Beginner’s Mind | Zen Explained Simply
Shoshin, or “beginner’s mind,” is the mind which doesn’t know. That is, the mind which doesn’t hold within it any ideas at all about what is going on. The value in this, is that you’re not preoccupied whatsoever when it comes to doing things. That means the natural intelligence of your own automatic functioning can […]