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The “About Zen” publication presents informative, provocative, and yes, fun and entertaining articles that make Zen meditation seem not only like a brilliant idea, but something readers might actually want to try and find useful and beneficial in their lives. Please join me.

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Richard Diedrichs in About Zen

Oct 10, 2024

About Zen — How to Be in the Moment as Much as Possible

Richard Diedrichs in About Zen

Oct 10, 2024

About Zen — How to Live a Blessed Life

Buddha tells us we live a blessed life by:

Not associating with the foolish and wicked in thoughts, words, and actions, associating with the wise; and honoring and respecting those worthy of honor and respect.

Richard Diedrichs in About Zen

Oct 10, 2024

About Zen — “What Can I Do?”

I had a boy in my fifth-grade class when I was a teacher who used to say whenever he got into trouble, “What did I do?” I thought about how different his world and mine would have been if he had said, “What can I do?” People say that when things go wrong, and they get stuck…

Richard Diedrichs in About Zen

Oct 10, 2024

About Zen — Clearly Choosing How We Think, Speak, and Act

The Buddha’s Words on Loving-Kindness

I watch a current American political candidate act and speak with such extreme anger, vileness, dishonesty, and disrespect. I see his followers, for their own…

Richard Diedrichs in About Zen

Oct 10, 2024

About Zen — All in the Same Boat

The Four Means of Sustaining a Favorable Relationship

[The Flirt, by Winslow Homer]

www.worldometers.info puts the human population at just over eight billion. Each of us emerges, lives, and is counted as a unique…

Richard Diedrichs in About Zen

Oct 10, 2024

About Zen — Awakening Is the Rule

We Realize Our Essence

The sixth Zen ancestor, nearly forty generations ago, observed that all Buddhist teaching exists within the essence of the human being. If we need help realizing our true human essence, we find a teacher. If we realize it…

Richard Diedrichs in About Zen

Oct 10, 2024

About Zen — A Life Practice?

Are We Prepared to Do This for Decades?

Richard Diedrichs in About Zen

Oct 10, 2024

About Zen — What Are Your Thoughts?

Why Is It Important to Understand Thoughts?

Richard Diedrichs in About Zen

Oct 10, 2024

About Zen — Core Beliefs

What Do You Believe to be True About Yourself?

When I began training with Diane Eshin Rizzetto, dharma heir to Joko Beck, I had to submit to Diane three of my personal core beliefs. From those three, Diane and I chose one, on which she and I worked for the…

Richard Diedrichs in About Zen

Oct 10, 2024

About Zen — Two Requisites for Liberation

Sit and Keep Sitting

A prominent Theravadan Buddhist monk of the current generation said, “liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth where there is steady and consistent practice.