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Everyday Zenby Charlotte Joko BeckCharlotte Joko Beck offers a warm, engaging, uniquely American approach to using Zen to deal with the problems of daily living—love, relationships, work, fear, ambition, and suffering. Everyday Zen shows us how to live each moment to the fullest. "We enter a discipline like Zen practice," Beck says, "so that we can learn to live in a sane way. Ultimately the result of Zen practice is working better in the office, raising our kids better, and having better relationships." The point is to do everything whole-heartedly and that is all that needs to be done. Practice is much more than sitting on a cushion [meditation]; it is refined in the ways we relate to others, do our work, and find our way through the challenges of everyday life. P.5 "As we make this effort over time, more and more we come to value the jewel that our life is. But if we continue to stew and fuss with our life as if it were a problem, ... the jewel will always remain hidden." p. 42 "We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life; not in avoiding pain, but in being pain when it is necessary to do so. Too large an order? Too hard? On the contrary, it is the easy way." pp. 44-45 "False fear exists because we misuse our minds... this almost ceaseless mental activity entails a constant, uneasy evaluation of ourselves and others." p. 64 "Day by day we all meet events that seem to be most unfair, and we feel that the only way to handle an attack is to fight back; and the way we fight is with our minds. We arm ourselves with our anger and our opinions, our self-righteousness... And we think this is the way to live our life. All that we accomplish is to increase the separation, to escalate the anger, and to make ourselves and everyone else miserable." p. 107 "Finally we become willing to experience our suffering instead of fighting it." p. 108 "So please be very clear with yourself about what must be done to end suffering;... We never do it by our complaints, our bitterness and anger; and I don't mean to suppress them. If they come up, notice them; you don't have to suppress them. Then immediately go back ..." p. 110 "Even on the calmest, most uneventful day we get many opportunities to see the clash between what we want and the way it really is." p. 112 "we're always thinking about how our lives might be (or how they once were)... The first stage of practice is to realize that we are rarely present: we're not experiencing life, we're thinking about it..." p. 131 "The biggest error we make in our life ... is to think that ... our life just as it is, with all of its problems, ... — has something wrong with it. And because we think that, we get busy... Our life is always all right. ... But since we refuse to accept life as it is, because of our preference for things that are pleasurable, we pick and choose from life." pp. 137-138 "Instead of saying, 'I should not be impatient.' we observe ourselves being impatient. We stand back and watch. ... When we start working like this — which means to really observe our minds — we should see that we are constantly spinning dreams of how we should or shouldn't be or how someone else should or shouldn't be; ... of how we can arrange matters to get what we desire." pp. 146-147 "First, we need to know we're upset... If we're upset we have to experience being upset... And such experiencing is physical; it has nothing to do with the thoughts going on about the upset... If I feel that I've been hurt by you, I want to stay with my thoughts about the hurt. I want to increase my separation; it feels good to be consumed by those fiery, self-righteous thoughts. By thinking, I try to avoid feeling the pain." p. 157 "... develop through practice an acute awareness of when we are separating ourselves from our life." pp. 158-159 "In times of confusion and depression the worst thing we can do is to try to be some other way." p. 168 Wisdom is to see that there is nothing to search for. If you live with a difficult person, that’s nirvana. Perfect. If you’re miserable, that’s it. And I’m not saying to be passive, not to take action; then you would be trying to hold nirvana as a fixed state. It’s never fixed, but always changing. There is no implication of ‘doing nothing.’ But deeds done that are born of this understanding are free of anger and judgment. No expectation, just pure and compassionate action. (p.141-142) Charlotte Joko Beck on MP3! |
