How did evolution build a prison for our minds, and how do we escape it? Zen Buddhism shows us we were never imprisoned in the first place, freeing us by helping us realize we are free.

#Zen #Buddhism #Evolution #Mindfulness #Mind #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfReligion

For some enlightenment is a slow saturation growing imperceptibly over time. But for everyone, always, enlightenment is right now. #zen #buddhism #mindfulness #meditation

This is your brain on hammers. We explore how our narrow conventional thinking (the hammer) leads us on a never-ending hunt for nails. Zen practice in everyday life gives a chance at freedom, to put the hammer back in the toolbox for later.
#zen #meditation #buddhism #mindfulness #philosophy

This is your brain on hammers. We explore how our narrow conventional thinking (the hammer) leads us on a never-ending hunt for nails. Zen practice in everyday life gives a chance at freedom, to put the hammer back in the toolbox for later.
#zen #meditation #buddhism #mindfulness #philosophy

What if there were no cake? Who would you be then? #mindfulness

What if Zen was simply bowing to the humble noodle? 🍜

#zen #buddhism #mindfulness #thedharmaoneverynoodle

in noodle vessel

a soaking starchy delight

eating is bowing

Have you had the noodle dream?

Noodles made with reverence. These are your lives and each is perfectly defined by a noodle. Everyday Zen practice with a fair helping of winks.

#zen #zazen #buddhism #mindfulness #haiku #noodledream

Less than nothing, but more than everything? Emptiness, the most important no-thing you’ll never meet, as close as your breath? Zen Buddhism grounds in Emptiness, a full life this very moment. Believing in nothingness readied for fullness, that is the art.

#zen #buddhism #mindfulness #existential

The coffee machine is on the fritz again, but really this is just part of the great activity at Café One Bright Pearl. #Zen is poured out for us whether the machine is running or not. #neverbroken #Buddhism #mindfulness

Compassion for coffee machines runs deep at the Café One Bright Pearl. Zen’s simple message: enlightenment is everyday mind ☕️

You and myriad beings, together: one bright pearl.

Are you open for waffles? 🧇
#zen #buddhism #mindfulness #interfaith #wafflesarenumberless

Blanket Theory is an offbeat Zen blog now 8 posts deep: errant practice, the Blanket Truth, Dharma Police, deer paths, dusty mirrors, and a man talking with animals at a forest pool. The detective’s case? Everywhere, nowhere. wp.me/pgPcK2-9E #zen #buddhism #mindfulness #existentialism

Blanket Theory is an offbeat Zen blog now 8 posts deep: errant practice, the Blanket Truth, Dharma Police, deer paths, dusty mirrors, and a man talking with animals at a forest pool. The detective’s case? Everywhere, nowhere. wp.me/pgPcK2-9E #zen #buddhism #mindfulness #existentialism