Suresh, The only thing I can add to what Joe says below is that 5 or 10 minutes of zazen daily, or even multiple times daily, done VERY WELL is better than a daily 2 hour session done halfway.
Grab whatever time you get to meditate, and when you are performing your duties always try to perform them with mind-full-ness. That means focus entirely on the task at hand. The task you are doing NOW. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > Suresh, > > I'd say that the more important thing is that you are able to practice, > yourself. This way, you will see the benefits of practice, and in fact > discover, for yourself, in your own life AS IT IS NOW, if there are any > benefits. > > If you begin to see benefits for yourself, then you may try to dedicate a > time in the day when you can even more securely practice. > > The practice will restore you and relax you, and you will find yourself > becoming more "resilient": more tough and more Kind. > > When you begin to discover benefits, you may be sure that OTHERS will also > receive benefits, through your own warmth and compassionate, kind attention. > Please trust me about this! > > You might therefore view Zen practice as a way to give fuller and further > attention to your children, and you might THANK them for this, for their > influence. By their perhaps "pushing" you toward a practice to help yourself > to settle and to restore yourself, you will find that you are also helping > the children, and helping every other person in your life. Even US!, on the > other end of this computer connection. > > Then, some time during your practice, please tell us here how Buddha Nature > works, in your own life, that is. > > Wishing you and your family every blessing, > > --Joe / Arizona > > > > "Suresh" <varamtha@> wrote: > > > > But what about people who have no time for themselves,how does your zen can > > be of any help to them. [snip] > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
