I Like Taoist and Zen Philosophy
Beginner's mind, Zen mind by Suzuki was my first contact with the wonderfully calm true style of Zen adepts at the age of 26.
My first experience with Buddhism was a ten day Vipassana course about eight years ago at 32. This opened me to mindfulness, which I took into my career at the time, which was cleaning contracting in London. Bringing order to chaos was great for a moving meditation, right occupation and also ground my ego like a pebble in a river.
Prayer has never been something that comes readily to me because I know sometimes what seems good turns out for the worst, and what seems ill turns out to be great.
As I have lived mindfully and listened to the quiet knowing within me, it has become easier to be a natural man, to control my speech and be a positive force in the world, while reducing the negativity I introduce. I take this into my gardening my marriage and the care for my 10 month old daughter.
There is still a long way to go, but these past couple of years I have grown steadily more content that I am on my path.
My work now centres around discipline, routine . . . a mixture of steering my own ship, even as I follow the way.
There are fewer and fewer anxieties about the paths closed off to me because I can not be in some careers that bring harm to the world, and I am steadily losing my fear of death.
Like Don Juan of Carlos Casteneda's books, my goal is to be impeccable in thought speech and action.
Whenever my level of power increases my ego reacts and needs to be recalibrated, but this gets easier and easier and easier.
My first experience with Buddhism was a ten day Vipassana course about eight years ago at 32. This opened me to mindfulness, which I took into my career at the time, which was cleaning contracting in London. Bringing order to chaos was great for a moving meditation, right occupation and also ground my ego like a pebble in a river.
Prayer has never been something that comes readily to me because I know sometimes what seems good turns out for the worst, and what seems ill turns out to be great.
As I have lived mindfully and listened to the quiet knowing within me, it has become easier to be a natural man, to control my speech and be a positive force in the world, while reducing the negativity I introduce. I take this into my gardening my marriage and the care for my 10 month old daughter.
There is still a long way to go, but these past couple of years I have grown steadily more content that I am on my path.
My work now centres around discipline, routine . . . a mixture of steering my own ship, even as I follow the way.
There are fewer and fewer anxieties about the paths closed off to me because I can not be in some careers that bring harm to the world, and I am steadily losing my fear of death.
Like Don Juan of Carlos Casteneda's books, my goal is to be impeccable in thought speech and action.
Whenever my level of power increases my ego reacts and needs to be recalibrated, but this gets easier and easier and easier.
By:
stridermart
Age:
36-40
,
Male
