A YEAR OF ZEN
A YEAR OF ZEN
Perhaps no era has needed Zen practice more urgently than our own. We live in a culture of perpetual distraction, where attention has become our most valuable and exploited resource. Our minds are fragmented across multiple screens, notifications, tasks, and streams of information. We eat while scrolling, walk while texting, work while messaging, and wonder why we feel perpetually exhausted and dissatisfied. We've forgotten how to simply be with ourselves, to experience one thing fully, to allow silence and stillness without immediately filling them.
Over the next year you'll receive an artfully designed weekly email filled with research-based practices and information, reflective writing and integration prompts, and inspiration that will support you in making this A Year of Zen.
In its simplest form, Zen is a set of practices for waking up to the life you're already living. It doesn't require you to believe anything, join anything, or become anything other than fully present to what is. What happens when you stop thinking about your life and start actually living it? What remains when you strip away the endless commentary, judgment, and conceptual overlay that separates you from direct experience? The practices in this collection are sourced from traditional Zen teachings that offer practical methods for integrating them into your modern life.
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You will:
- Learn practices from classical and modern Zen masters and teachings
- Develop steady presence and calm through traditional practices like zazen, kinhin, and more
- Build witnessing awareness that lets you observe thoughts and emotions without being controlled by them
- Reduce mental fragmentation and distraction by training sustained, single-pointed attention
- Cultivate "beginner's mind" that brings fresh curiosity and wonder to familiar experiences
- Practice sitting with difficult emotions and uncertainty without needing to fix or escape them
- Discover moments of non-separation where boundaries between self and world dissolve
- Integrate meditation into daily life so practice and living become one continuous flow
- Access peace that doesn't depend on circumstances changing but emerges from presence itself
- Build spiritual resilience through practices that develop equanimity with whatever arises
- Experience the sufficiency of ordinary moments without seeking something better or different
A Selection of Pages from A Year of Zen
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