Zennish Thoughts

                             This will seem more esoteric than usual. It seems that way to me. You may find it curious. A few may find it valuable. You may get more value from these thoughts the more you stay relaxed and keep it simple. As I write, I believe.

                        You can see freshly and newly the doings of life and the happenings around you. 

                        Zen is much about posture, breathing, attitude, and understanding, I am told.

                        Noticing yourself is good for you and me.

                        We can teach ourselves and learn.

                        You can be willing to practice.

                        We can be aware of the dualisticness among us and go beyond.

                        We can be pleased by becoing more aware of the possibilities. You may be aware of doing so for the first time. Note their newness. Note them.

                        We are capable of letting more meaning into our lives. Meaning is limitless. 

                        It is said that your posture reflects your state of mind. A straight back is often a part of good posture. You can benefit by being more aware of a strong abdomen.

                        There is one and there is all. When you know that, you can better know the inbetween.

                        You can open your mind and so be ready, and it is easier than emptying your mind.

                        We can exist for ourselves and not be selfish. You can benefit be being more aware of yourself. You are right here and right now. You exist right here and right now.

                        You are a activity. You can be aware of a pleasant activity within, as you sit relaxed.

                        You can do. Your are willing to do. You can be ready to do that which you must. You probably don't have to do any doing.

                        You can be mischievious and be in control. You can practice some of that control by avoiding doing damage.

                        You can observe an experience or a thought. You can benefit by asking a question about your observation. Some ask, "How is this?" Other questions may be better for you. It may be best to let the happening and observation go. You can let it go as it goes.

                      It is possible to see doings and happenings as they are and to let them go as they go.

                        Let the observation into your mind and let it go out. Noting it is enough.

                       You do not have to continue to be bothered by anything. You can be ready, willing, and able to do something about the bother and it may be best to do it promptly. But you probably don't really have to bother at all.

                    Our understandings change our attitudes.

                    Taking some time to keep one's mind on one's breath can be a beneficialpractice, but nor always.

                    Accepting reality is accepting what is. Not doing so is often deleterious. Still, changing or mind can be the sane action. Often the change can be called beneficial growth.

                     You know there is more than either or.

                      We improve. We improve with practice and will. An effort to improve onesself is seldom wasted.

                        We each have more than one nature. It is good to express them. Express them with care and caution. It is good to express your best selves actively, simply, and directly.

                            May you be well.

                                                                                                            rcs

                        

We Have a Capacity for Careful Thought

 Our Goodness:  

            Our practice of good reading, good conversation and our ongoing learning maintains our capacity for careful thought with no damage to our creativity. Among us there is continued resistance to deceit and delusion. We have stayed on the way of well founded thinking and the road of sane judgement and so, continue able to resist incredulity, indignation, fear, false shame, hypocracy, pride, and I have run out of breath.

            By avoiding too much pride and having abundant care for ourselves, we have succeeded in allowing ourselves to do that which is useful for others and pleasant for ourselves.

            We have remembered the meaningfulness of our work, and the value of the thinking and sweat we put into our work. We know that thinking and working up a sweat is sane and healthy. We are pleased with our awareness of the value of moderation.

            It is amazing and pleasing to know that we are capable of such goodness.

            We have remembered the significance of work without putting too much thought or sweat into it. We attend to the value of balance. One marvels at that which we can do.

           

Still we sometimes neglect helping our children and youth to learn to:                      
~ be cautious in sex and to avoid promiscuity.

~ to be outwardly courteous to all, but inwardly remain free to never put to much trust in anyone or anything. This while remembering that with so little faith in the light switch that they fail to switch it to on, they may spend much time in the dark.

~ be with the work they love and to love the work they are with and to find the usefulness and pleasure in it and to find the joy in it as well as in the cash it brings.

~ be open to new ideas and new discoveries.

~ to let abundant consideration and reconsideration of doings, feelings, processes, emotions, and happenings into their lives.

~ help their day dreams to be realistic.

~ Remember that reality is a way to sanity. 

~ let their doings be pleasing to themselves and useful to others.

~ love their parents and to be aware that it is good to see them realistically,

            It can be good for us to remember that the lessons we offer our youth and children may be usefully applied to ourselves.

            As a gift to ourselves we can reconstitute and fortify our capacity for careful thought and its usefulness with the following doings:

            ~ Encourage our willingness to be more aware of our actual state of being.

            ~ Take time for quite contemplation of that which has recently(and perhaps for long)has seemed important to us. This in not a time for figuring things out.

            ~ Arrange opportunity for relaxed, thoughtful, conversation.

            Thank you for reading. I may read it again, again.

                                                                        rcs