We all have activities, environmental settings, sights and sounds that bring us to Zen. One of many for me is sitting in the shop, the sound of rain pitter pattering down while I reload cartridges...makes me very mellow. What are some things that bring you to Zen?
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kozmic
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I can find inner peace doing almost everything as long as I am plugged into some tasty music. Give me some blues and the task become secondary. I can still concentrate and be productive, just immersed in the music.
carpriver
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I like to sit in my rocking chair and rock; my mind clears and I ponder the meaning of life or some I've read in the bible. In the summer months I will sit out on my patio in my rocking chair with my coffee and meditate and watch the birds at the feeders.
Way against my nature....
I'm impatient and it sure doesn't come naturally but I have been able to reach that state a few times. I was raking leaves in the churchyard one time and got there. A 'spiritual' setting like being in the mountains, on the beach at night or out in the ocean helps. I'm working on getting into it while doing repetitive tasks like decapping/resizing. Any operation except measuring out powder!
Who remembers the scene in 'Little Big Man' where his sister is teaching him to go all 'snake-eyed' so he'll be able to draw a gun without drawing it? Pure Zen.
I'm impatient and it sure doesn't come naturally but I have been able to reach that state a few times. I was raking leaves in the churchyard one time and got there. A 'spiritual' setting like being in the mountains, on the beach at night or out in the ocean helps. I'm working on getting into it while doing repetitive tasks like decapping/resizing. Any operation except measuring out powder!
Who remembers the scene in 'Little Big Man' where his sister is teaching him to go all 'snake-eyed' so he'll be able to draw a gun without drawing it? Pure Zen.
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Mornings at the campground
Waking up before anyone else in the morning chill, sitting at the fire drinking fresh coffee. If that ain't Zen, it'll do til Zen comes along....
Waking up before anyone else in the morning chill, sitting at the fire drinking fresh coffee. If that ain't Zen, it'll do til Zen comes along....
I described in another thread.....
I was camping on an island and woke up with a face full of fiddler crabs. I didn't want to go sleep with the crabs so I got up and watched the shrimp boats plying back and forth, swaying gently under the night sky on a peaceful ocean then the sun rising. I don't know if it's Zen, but it's a feeling of being one with the world.
This reminds me of the 'Moody Blues' "Question of Balance" where the man gets the same feeling. Here are the lyrics:
After he had journeyed,
And his feet were sore,
And he was tired,
He came upon an orange grove
And he rested
And he lay in the cool,
And while he rested, he took to himself an orange and tasted it,
And it was good.
And he felt the earth to his spine,
And he asked, and he saw the tree above him, and the stars,
And the veins in the leaf,
And the light, and the balance.
And he saw magnificent perfection,
Whereon he thought of himself in balance,
And he knew he was.
I was camping on an island and woke up with a face full of fiddler crabs. I didn't want to go sleep with the crabs so I got up and watched the shrimp boats plying back and forth, swaying gently under the night sky on a peaceful ocean then the sun rising. I don't know if it's Zen, but it's a feeling of being one with the world.
This reminds me of the 'Moody Blues' "Question of Balance" where the man gets the same feeling. Here are the lyrics:
After he had journeyed,
And his feet were sore,
And he was tired,
He came upon an orange grove
And he rested
And he lay in the cool,
And while he rested, he took to himself an orange and tasted it,
And it was good.
And he felt the earth to his spine,
And he asked, and he saw the tree above him, and the stars,
And the veins in the leaf,
And the light, and the balance.
And he saw magnificent perfection,
Whereon he thought of himself in balance,
And he knew he was.
Riding my mountain bike on a wooded trail, hiking in the mountains, sittin' next to a campfire watching the flames dance. There's lotsa things that make me feel that all is right.
Just yesterday evening my wife and I were sitting on the sofa with our 2 cats watching tv. It was a mellow, comfortable moment.
Lately for me it's been doin' leatherwork. Lotsa people get machines to stitch, sand and burnish the edges to hurry up and get a project done. To me it's in the doin'.
When I'm working on a long stitch line, or working on holsters, belts or knife sheaths, I forget about neuropathy, money problems and the other things that stress us.
I feel a certain amount of pride and satisfaction when my hand finished edges come out this nice.
Just yesterday evening my wife and I were sitting on the sofa with our 2 cats watching tv. It was a mellow, comfortable moment.
Lately for me it's been doin' leatherwork. Lotsa people get machines to stitch, sand and burnish the edges to hurry up and get a project done. To me it's in the doin'.
When I'm working on a long stitch line, or working on holsters, belts or knife sheaths, I forget about neuropathy, money problems and the other things that stress us.
I feel a certain amount of pride and satisfaction when my hand finished edges come out this nice.
Old TexMex
Member
Sitting in the desert makes it easy for me.
Those western settings.....
I love visiting the west because it is easy for me too. It bores a lot of people but I can't understand that. I can look at a rock formation for hours. Now, the Great Plains are boring. There are places locally that like. There was a forest park with a canal off a big lake and I could run along the banks for hours w/o getting tired. I especially enjoyed this during the fall. Hurricane Hugo wrecked it.
Sitting in the desert makes it easy for me.
I love visiting the west because it is easy for me too. It bores a lot of people but I can't understand that. I can look at a rock formation for hours. Now, the Great Plains are boring. There are places locally that like. There was a forest park with a canal off a big lake and I could run along the banks for hours w/o getting tired. I especially enjoyed this during the fall. Hurricane Hugo wrecked it.
