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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. —Henri Poincaré It's late. Broken streetlights flicker sporadically. You're walking down the street by yourself and you notice someone coming the other... -
From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomTo set up what you like against what you dislike—this is the disease of the mind. —Seng-Tsan Shakespeare's tragic hero, Hamlet, said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” That philosophy...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomBlessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. —Matthew 5:7 (KJV) You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it....
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomLove yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. —Lucille Ball We don't keep driving our cars when the “check engine” light comes on, but as...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomWhen we commit ourselves to paying attention in an open way … we have a chance to free ourselves from the straightjacket of unconsciousness. —Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are You're finally home from...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomLearning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen— that stillness becomes a radiance. —Morgan Freeman The world is a busy place. We spend our days and nights consumed by the responsibilities of our...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomThe purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomOur life is frittered away by detail… Simplify! Simplify! Simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose! —Henry David Thoreau, Walden To drive home the importance of creating space in our lives, I initially...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomThe archer ceases to be conscious of himself as the one who is engaged in hitting the bull's-eye which confronts him. This state of unconsciousness is realized only when, completely empty and rid of the self, he becomes...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomYou can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. —The Rolling Stones, “You Can't Always Get What You Want” Show of hands: How many of you struggle with...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomYou have to be grateful whenever you get to someplace safe and okay, even if it turns out it wasn't quite where you were heading. —Anne Lamott, Small Victories Because I was a drama major and writer, my favorite...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomIn the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few. —Shunryu Suzuki When I was much younger, I was always embarrassed to say, “I don't know.” I felt ashamed because I saw my...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomMy religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. —Dalai Lama The world can be a difficult place. If you look, you can find infinite justifications for anger, bitterness, and resentment. And you can live there, if...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomThe unpardonable sin is the sin of inadvertence, of not being alert, not quite awake. —Joseph Campbell These days it's hip to be prepared for the zombie apocalypse. But sometimes it feels like the apocalypse has...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomIn detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty … in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. —Deepak Chopra We are taught early on to yearn for...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomTo a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. —Lao Tzu Think about those first few moments after you wake up, when you are groggy and feel like you are floating between sleep and awareness. This feeling of...
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From:The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the ClassroomThe white cloud is always the white cloud. The blue mountain is always the blue mountain. —Tozan, Zen Master The warmth of the sun. The greenness of the grass. The cries of a child. When you notice your world...