Meditation Forward
Meditation Forward
Dear friend,
The world is changing. There is a current. There is a direction. We all feel this dance. It is the path pulling us. But where? I believe to spirit. I believe to self. But the road is long and it is filled with lessons. Sometimes the lessons bite and we suffer. But in that we grow. On the way we meet forgotten friends. We learn to see each other again. They teach us. We teach them. We walk together and then go our separate ways, trusting when the time is right all paths will again surely cross. Eventually we learn to trust the path, despite its pits and its thorns. Through our cuts and bruises we learn to understand. To understand is to love, sit with this and the current will slow. Stillness is now your teacher and silence is your lesson. Take a breath to remember what it is you are. Now, where to go from here?
Kindly, Eben
“I’ve been teaching for ten years, non-stop, and there isn’t a thought of slowing down because I am both enlivened by the exploration and discussion of meditation but also keenly aware of how important it’ll be for many members of the coming future.”
-Eben
“I’ve been teaching for ten years, non-stop, and there isn’t a thought of slowing down because I am both enlivened by the exploration and discussion of meditation but also keenly aware of how important it’ll be for many members of the coming future.”
-Eben
My mission as a student and teacher is to simplify the process of meditation while increasing its effect through study, practice, exploration, and adventure.
My mission as a student and teacher is to simplify the process of meditation while increasing its effect through study, practice, exploration, and adventure.
This series of transcribed talks, given by Shunryu Suzuki, is a modern Zen classic for a reason! Arranged in a way that makes the great theme of Zen approachable to our busy, Western minds; to read the book is Zen itself.
"There is a cost to medicating away every type of human suffering, and, as we shall see, there is an alternative path that might work; “embracing pain."
Bodhidharma, in many ways, is seen as the father of Zen. His teachings are cryptic because they are so simple. This challenges our desire to achieve something through practice which is the main obstacle of meditation. Even here, in this hobby of satisfaction and peace, we promote our subtle dissatisfaction and perpetuate our yearning for more. Tip; read these quotes with no mind. Seek nothing from them. Read them as gibberish and maybe a strange wisdom will come.