Zen Is the Way to Zen Health
Zen Is the Way to Zen Health
by
Stephen Lau
Zen health holds the key to longevity. Zen is the way to longevity living.
Well, what is Zen or the way of Zen?
Contrary to popular belief, Zen is not a religious belief. Despite having its origin from Buddha, Zen is not the foundation of Buddhism.
The word “Zen” is Japanese, but it derives from the Chinese, meaning “meditation.” It is an Oriental mental practice for self-enlightenment. More specifically, Zen is a transcendental mental state that affects the overall physical and mental being of an individual, and therefore conducive to longevity living.
Tiger Woods utilizes Zen for his golfing success. In fact, just about anyone can apply the way of Zen to just about anything in his or her everyday living. Zen is an unconventional thinking that may defy the rational mind: it is worldliness that is not worldly. Zen living is Zen health for longevity living.
So, what exactly is Zen, or Zen health?
Simply put, Zen is intuitive knowing. According to Plato, the great philosopher, life is a process of “forgetting” - episodes of experiences and happenings that may tend to make you “forget” the ultimate truth of living, which you are supposed to know intuitively. The way of Zen is to re-discover that inherent wisdom of knowing the eternal truth that may have eluded you in the process of living, and that awakening to the ultimate truth is Nirvana.
In Zen health, one is a better physician for you than yourself, and nobody has the wisdom to know your body's real needs other than yourself. So, in Zen health, everything begins with YOU!
Zen is the way: Stop looking for a quick fix in life!
The way of Zen living is simple: Life is NEVER a problem. If life is a problem, it is because YOU have created the problem for yourself. If there is no problem, why do you need a solution? Fixing a non-existing problem in life is only creating more problems.
Don’t seek a solution to your problems in life, and don’t look for a quick fix for a problem that may not even exist in the first place.
Likewise, if you have a health problem, probably YOU have created the health problem for yourself.
You are not supposed to get sick. Your Creator has given you an immune system to protect you from disease. The way of Zen is a way of pursuing Zen health, which does just that - to protect you from disease through natural healing.
Don’t readily and voluntarily reach out for pharmaceutical drugs as a quick fix. All drugs are toxic chemicals. As such, they may only suppress the symptoms of a health problem, but never eradicate the causes of that health problem. Taking pharmaceutical drugs not only impairs your immune system, but also makes your body more acidic, and hence eventually more toxic and more susceptible to disease. A toxic environment is not conducive to cellular renewal, thereby depriving your body the opportunity of natural healing.
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, once said: “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” Don't deprive your body of that opportunity of natural healing. The Zen lifestyle embraces patience and spontaneity. Be natural with the cure, and be patient with the recovery.
Remember, longevity living is always drug free. Don’t create a problem where there is none. A healthy lifestyle is always free from drugs. A pharmaceutical drug may create more problems than it solves.
Given the very toxic nature of pharmaceutical drugs, do not reach out for an over-the-counter drug without thinking; even for any prescription drug, you should be cautious before taking it. Give your body its natural healing power that it deserves.
· Your high cholesterol can be controlled without the use of drugs. The 60 Day Prescription Free Cholesterol Cure shows you how to maintain healthy cholesterol levels as well as lower your cholesterol naturally without the use of statin drugs.
· Your heart disease can be reversed drug free: How to Prevent or Even Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery is about preventing and reversing heart disease without drugs or invasive procedures. Robert D. Willix Jr., who has been a surgeon for 30 years, has pioneered preventive medicine and natural cures instrumental in preventing and reversing heart disease, without surgery or drugs. Some of his groundbreaking findings include: contrary to conventional wisdom, raising cholesterol level can protect the heart; and taking an aspirin a day can increase the risk for heart attack, among others. Robert D. Willix Jr. also reveals the “secrets” that the mainstream medicine and big pharmaceutical companies would not like you to know, and they certainly don't want you to go drug free. This is an enlightening book highly recommended for anyone who wishes to have a healthy heart drug free. For a healthy lifestyle, go for natural healing.
· Cancer can be treated drug free. Natural Cancer Treatments is a collection of over 350 natural and alternative cancer treatments. More than 80 percent of surveyed oncologists stated that they would refuse chemotherapy if they had cancer, and that they would surely want the benefits of these treatments for themselves and their families. In addition, former Western Australian Premier John Tonkin stated, "There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that this is the most advanced form of cancer treatment in the world today." This is an excellent book on cancer cure without the use of drugs.
(If you wish to know more about cancer treatment the natural way, go to my website Cancer Treatment Options.)
· Your insomnia can be eliminated drug free. Psyche Sleep shows you how to double your energy levels and naturally transforms your body into a restful sleep magnet through calmness and meditation. If you have a sleep problem, this may be the drug-free answer to your problem. Find out how to pursue a healthy lifestyle by having a night of good sleep drug free.
The medical community and the media would have you believe that taking drugs seems to be the only option for a healthy lifestyle. Drugs are unsafe.
On May 21, 2007, based on a recent research conducted by Dr. Steven Nissen at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the FDA expressed concern regarding the safety of Avandia, a pill widely prescribed by doctors to treat type 2 diabetes. The groundbreaking research findings suggested that the risk of a heart attack was increased 43 percent among those taking the drug, and that there was a 64 percent increased risk of dying from cardiovascular causes, compared with patients not taking the drug. This is yet another strong testament to the dubious safety of many pharmaceutical drugs. For a healthy lifestyle, go drug free.
If you need good herbal supplements, instead of toxic pharmaceutical drugs, go to Herbal Remedies, which is a one-stop place for all your herbal needs and vitamin supplements. In addition, you can get useful health information regarding common ailments. which can often be treated the natural way with natural herbs.
(Also, for more information on herbal cures, visit my website Herbal Cures for natural healing for Zen health.)
Zen health is free from the use of drugs: Zen living focuses on spontaneity of things, that is, letting Nature run its course).
Zen is the way: Stop creating stress in life!
Contemporary way of life is often an unhealthy lifestyle: it is much like living in a pressure cooker. The endless challenges, demands, and goals continue to churn out stress in every form. That way of life is not Zen health.
Life is stressful. Some experts even suggest that “appropriate” stress may be conducive to good health. You just wonder. Anyway, life doesn't have to be stressful. Zen health should be free from any kind of undue stress. Don't create unnecessary stress in your life! Longevity living or Zen lifestyle should always be stress free.
How do you unwittingly create stress in your life?
According to Zen living, life is never a problem, and Zen lifestyle is never meant to be stressful. But, unfortunately, it is your mind that has created the problem in the first place, and hence the stress.
Logically, a problem requires a solution. Your thinking mind presents to you a number of options to solve the problem you have created for yourself. Your rational mind then begins to analyze and choose; and stress is thus created in the process of analyzing and choosing. In Zen, the rational mind is not a friend, but quite often an enemy, of Zen health.
Your stress is further reinforced if you made the wrong choice: you become ridden with guilt and regret over your choice.
The way of Zen health is simple: Do not make life into a problem, and there will be no problem. Do not look backward. Do not look forward. Just being present completely and fully.
Yes, Zen focuses on the present moment - not the past, and surely not the future.
Alas, we are living in a goal-setting world in mad pursuit of fame, fortune and success. The way of Zen, on the other hand, accomplishes things without exerting undue efforts.
Lin Yutang, the great contemporary Chinese philosopher, aptly epitomizes the paradox of the wisdom "accomplishing things without much doing" in his famous quotation: "A wise man is never busy, and a busy man is never wise."
But Zen living is by no means inactive and passive.
Zen focuses only on the present (always the present moment), not the past (dwelling on the past may make you judgmental and remorseful), and surely not the future (expectations in the future may make you anxious and frustrated). In other words, in Zen health, you focus only on the process, not the result, of doing things. It is tantamount to the Christian concept of “doing your best, and letting God do the rest!”; or what Jesus said in the Lord's prayer "Give us this day our daily bread." God does not promise you a tomorrow, and man proposes but God disposes. Just do what you must do at this very present moment, and do not be anxious of the outcome. Concentrate on the "doing", and not the expectations of the result. This is the way of Zen!
The problem with most of us is that we permit our rational mind to be in control. We desperately want to get things done our way, and in doing so have created undue stress in our lives. Remember, the rational mind is more of an enemy than a friend in the Zen healthy lifestyle.
(To find out what world religions have to say about stress control, go to my website World Religions on Stress Control. Also, go to my website Physical Exercise to get all the resources to use exercise for de-stressing yourself, if need be. A word of warning: exercise may be good for your stress, but over-exercise is not conducive to Zen health.)
In addition, life is not a problem but may become a problem when you selectively welcome only good experiences but reject the bad ones. In Zen health, learn to accept and embrace all that life brings you, and live the present moment to the fullest in spite of the bad experiences.
“The perfect Way is without difficulty,
Save that it avoids picking and choosing.
Only when you stop liking and disliking
Will all be clearly understood.
A split hair’s difference,
And heaven and earth are set apart.
If you want to get the plain truth,
Be not concerned with right and wrong.
The conflict between right and wrong
Is the sickness of the mind.”
An old Zen poem
Because you want only the good experiences in life, you will do anything not only just to repeat those good experiences in the future, but also to avoid the bad experiences in the past. This is how you have created stress along the way.
Zen health is simple: Go back to the beginning, and be a child again.
According to Plato, life is a process of “forgetting.” Therefore, we need to go back to the beginning - children have no past and no future, and everything is present to them. This simple mental state is the way of Zen!
In Zen, you remember where you came from, who you are, and where you are heading. In real life, many rush through their lives without knowing who they are, where they are going; they pursue one goal after another, and in their pursuit they lose their true purpose of living - this is not the way of Zen, which alone can instill deep peace internalized.
Zen health is simple: Intuit the profound wisdom of not knowing anything. Ignorance may be bliss.
Go back to the beginning. Have a child-like mind to re-claim the excitement, joy, and adventurous spirit that have been lost amidst the hustle and bustle of modern living.
Make your life simple. Have a simple healthy lifestyle. Do away all the clutters in your life. Clutters of the past may clutter your present and your future life. Live only at the present moment, and only that very present moment is important to you. This is Zen health at the simplest!
Zen health begins at where you live. Creating empty space in your physical world simultaneously creates empty and open space in your life. Declutter Your House is a home-coaching program on helping you free yourself of clutters conducive to stress, thereby creating space necessary for Zen health. It helps you get rid of the clutters even before you “get organized.” Getting rid of clutters can make a difference to the energy of your home - which is, by the way, good feng shui. You can always apply quick and easy feng shui principles to your newly de-cluttered home.
Begin Zen health by getting rid of your physical clutters at home.
Zen is the way: Stop craving more and more!
The way of Zen living is simple: Let life tell you what you NEED, not what you WANT.
Your wants are your imaginary needs, which can never be fulfilled. Even if they were satisfied, you would crave more and more. Not only do you want everything in life, but you also want to hold onto it forever.
But Zen focuses on the moment, and each moment remains with that moment. In this respect, the universe is forever changing. Therefore, any attachment is futile and unnatural. Imaginary needs only beget delusions, which precipitate confusion and distress in life.
“All things in the universe are illusory and impermanent, yet the individual craves and cleaves to them. This very fundamental Ignorance is called 'Wu-ming', which is non-enlightenment.” Chang Chan
Stop craving more and more. And you will then become enlightened: your deepest need in life is to be who you really are, and all other things in life are just dispensable extras and non-essentials.
“The five colors cause one’s eyes to be bold.
The five tones cause one’s ears to be deaf.
The five flavors cause one’s palate to be spoiled.
Racing and hunting cause one’s mind to be mad.
Goods that are hard to get cause one’s heart to be restless.”
Lao Tzu
Zen health is simple: Empty your cup, and find out what is most valuable in your life. In a changing world, any attachment to anything is no more than "false" security.
Zen is the way: Stop suffering from pain!
Depression is a disease of the mind - a manifestation of deep internal pain. Many individuals suffering from depression have a distorted perception of self-worth. Instead of accepting who they are, they want to be what they wish they would like to become. Their hunger for that realty often fosters delusions and a host of other mental problems, such as confusion and distress. Depression is not Zen health.
(Find out how to heal your depression by using your mind from my website Rethink Your Depression, which shows you how to develop new perspectives on your depression.)
A depressed individual may feel the pain (which is real to that individual), but does not have to suffer from the pain.
In life, pain may not be an option, but suffering is often a choice. Sadly, suffering is often unknowingly self-inflicted through explanation, rationalization, and over-indulgence. With or without them, the pain is still there, whether you like it or not. You need not welcome or reject it. But you don't have to turn your pain into perpetual suffering. The pain is there, but you need not prolong your suffering unnecessarily.
According to Buddha, all pain comes from desire. Longing for something you cannot have creates pain. In life, pain occurs when expectations are not met. In Zen, every moment remains with that moment. For this reason, everything is changing, and impermanent. To desire or crave permanence from something impermanent is a disease of the mind.
Unlike modern psychiatry, the way of Zen is not to question, analyze, or dwell upon pain. Modern psychiatry analyzes emotional pain in an attempt to avoid that pain. Ironically, according to Zen, this is how the setting for suffering is created. Zen health may not be free from pain, but it is certainly free from suffering, which is often self-induced and self-inflicted. Don't rationalize your pain; just accept it.
Zen health is simple: Pain is natural. Just learn how to receive it.
“To separate what we like from what we dislike is the disease of the mind” Sosan
In Zen, pain is simply pain: nothing more and nothing less. Striving to explain it, or dwell upon it, is depression, which is unhealthy living.
7 Steps To A Depression-Free Life explains in detail how you can overcome your depression in seven steps without the use of drugs. If you have been battling depression with prescription drugs, maybe you will find in this book other alternative treatments to help you go drug free. Depression is a disease of the mind. Learn how to control it instead of letting it control you.
Bipolar Disorder Uncovered is a comprehensive book on the medical side of bipolar depression, the different treatments available, the monitoring of medications, and the benefits of psychotherapy. Bipolar depression is a devastating disorder. Reclaim your life using the strategies outlined in the book.
Zen health is simple: Hold all of life in the palm of your hands. Trust your inner strength and wisdom.
Change the way you think about yourself through meditation, which is the precursor of intuitive wisdom.
(Find out how to discipline your thoughts to avoid depression in life from my website: The Pillar of Mind Power.)
Zen is the way: Stop looking for love!
To many, failed relationships are painful. In our contemporary society, divorces are commonplace.
Why is a good love relationship so difficult to come by? Or why do good relationships fail?
Zen health is simple: Love without expectations.
Love is a gift, but you must be ready to receive it. Surprisingly, many people are just not ready. They come to love with many expectations, and when these expectations fail, love turns into pain.
But real love does not hurt, because real love is not a feeling; instead, it is a way of being. Real love is neither conditional nor dependent on someone or something else. Real love is simply an act, a deed.
Zen health is simple: Feel good about yourself for who and what you are. Love means never having to use another person to make you feel better.
Real love is built of deeds. You do not feel love: you "do" love. When you "do" love, you are loving, and loving others, you are being loved. Love is made up of loving deeds, not feelings. Love, dependent on feelings, is infatuation, not real love. Real love is without expectations, and therefore it never hurts.
This is a common scenario of how a love relationship may end.
You want love, but you may be afraid to receive it. This is often the irony in a love relationship.
The problem (in Zen wisdom, there is never a problem) is that you are looking for a "perfect" love relationship or the "right" person to make you "happy" about yourself.
In your subconscious mind, that "perfect" love relationship or the "right" person can make you "happy" because deep in your mind a "good" love relationship is supposed to make you "feel good" about yourself. In other words, you are using that "right" person to reinforce your self-image, thereby unwittingly creating the "fear" in your subconscious mind, because your “well-being” then becomes too dependent on that "right" person, so to speak.
When that "right" person does turn up in your life, you may feel inadequate, undeserving, or simply incomplete. Subconsciously, you feel the relationship may not last, and you may consciously or subconsciously "anticipate" the inevitable rejection that you think will inevitably happen one day. Then you start picking fights and testing the other person constantly (in fits of anger and jealousy), even though deep down you may want that love relationship to last. Ironically, it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is how a love relationship may turn sour and end unhappily.
Zen health is simple: You are the “perfect” person just as you are, and so is your partner.
If you cannot love yourself completely, you cannot love another person. It is just that simple. If you cannot accept something unpleasant or incomplete in yourself, you cannot accept something else that you think is unpleasant and incomplete in another person. If you reject that person, you are in fact rejecting a part of yourself that you do not like.
In a love relationship, you often begin to "mask" what you do not like about yourself, hiding from that "right" person. You are afraid of giving yourself frankly and opening yourself completely, and accepting yourself just as you really are. If you don't take off that mask of yours, you will only make any love relationship difficult to last.
Zen health is simple: Accept what is good and bad in a love relationship; you cannot take just the good and discard the bad. A love relationship is there to tell you what you need, not what you want.
Zen is the way: Stop disease and sickness!
The way of Zen living is simple: Do not label yourself sick, or mentally ill. Sickness is but a human condition. Labeling only compounds the problem of sickness.
Physical pain, often manifested in the form of symptoms of a disease, is nothing but a warning sign that there is imbalance in your body, which is the underlying cause of the symptoms. In other words, the physical pain is telling you that you may need Zen health. Remember, rejecting something repeatedly never makes it go away.
Zen health is based on the concept of balance and harmony.
(For more information on the balance and harmony of "yin" and "yang" in the Oriental living, visit my website: The Pillar of Balance and Harmony.
In Zen health, you realize you must become stronger than the pain. Fighting and resisting the pain only intensify the pain.
In Zen health, you say “yes” to whatever that may come your way.
“Sometimes we receive the power to say 'yes' to life
Then peace enters us and makes us whole.”
Emerson
Natural healing coming from within brings inner peace with it.
Nature does not struggle. Like Nature, your Zen health is your natural state of being.
Just be where you are. Allow the divine nature of things into your life. Notice every detail of your environment: be aware of the beauty, joy, and wonder of all aspects of life, such as the sound of birds, the radiant sunlight, and the whisper of wind. Treasure every moment - it will not come again. Only this awareness will bring about natural healing of the mind and the body.
Natural healing comes from not only learning to say “yes” to all of your experiences but also being willing to experience them just as they are. Wholesome wellness emerges from the balance and harmony of all parts within you.
(Read my book NO MIRACLE CURES - Only Wholesome Self-Healing.)
You will know that your body has attained internal balance - which holds the key to wellness - when the acid and alkaline level in your body becomes balanced, neutralizing each other.
The Acid-Alkaline Diet Simplified provides excellent information on how to alkalize your diet. Many experts believe that a balance of acidity and alkalinity, known as your balanced pH level in your body, will make you disease free. It is an anti-aging diet to help your body rejuvenate from years of toxic abuse. Eating a balanced acid-alkaline diet is a healthy lifestyle for everyone - it is the way of Zen!
To begin any healing, you must change your attitudes. Persistent negative attitudes become wounds in your life. If you feel that life is meaningless, your body may begin to express that negative attitude by shriveling up and dying.
With a positive state mind, you must adopt a healthy lifestyle to cleanse your body of toxins, which may have accumulated over the years from toxic chemicals, toxic drugs, and toxic foods - and even toxic thoughts. Detoxification initiates rejuvenation necessary for recovery.
The simplest way to detoxify a toxic body is by fasting.
(For more information, go to my website: Fasting.)
You may also cleanse your body through diet and nutrition. The 10 Step Detox Program is an effective nutrition and diet program designed to cleanse your body of toxins. The Detox Kit contains more than 100 pages of nutritional information, with 10 steps to detoxify your body, hair analysis to find out the extent of your toxicity, pH test strips to determine your body's acid-alkaline level, and vitamins supplements to detoxify your body. Dr. Janet Starr Hull is a recognized expert on alternative healing through nutrition. Follow her steps in your healthy lifestyle for natural healing and health rejuvenation.
Zen health requires the daily use of water as an effective medium for internal cleansing.
The Detox Bath uses NOTHING but water to help your body flush out toxins and excess fat. It is a tool that nature graciously provides you to help you maintain your body and health in optimal condition. Make water detoxification a part of your Zen health.
You may use Complete Body Cleanse to detoxify your body.
You may also use the Oriental way of detoxification for natural healing: using foot patches. Oriental foot patches are 100 percent natural. These foot patches literally suck the toxins out of your body when they are attached to your feet while you sleep. The discolored foot patches attest to the removal of all the toxins from your body.
After your initial detoxification, maintain your health with super foods. If possible, learn to go the Ultimate Organic Lifestyle too.
Healing and natural healing may begin anytime. Wherever you are is the entry point for natural healing. Just say “yes” to everything, and have a positive Zen mentality for Zen health. Physical wellness has to be reinforced by spiritual wellness in order for complete natural healing to take place.
Find out more about Zen living and mentality from Living By Zen. Discover the 2,000-year-old Zen secret to feeling calm, balanced, and positive no matter what is going on in your life. This is an excellent book on the philosophy and the psychology of Zen. You will be working with both Zen principles and psychology to discover exactly what it is that causes pain, crisis, and sorrow, and how to turn them quickly around to benefit your well-being. Discover why most relationships are not working and what is needed to change that. Discover your Zen from Living By Zen.
When you have emptied your mind, you begin to experience the mind itself. In the emptiness of pure consciousness, there is an awakening to the oneness of self and all life. In this state of sublime enlightenment, you will realize the need of living a life of "no problem", and healing will thus begin.
Zen is the way: Stop the egoistic self!
Zen health is simple: Zen is a state of being, of total control. Zen is the ability to perform and accomplish everyday tasks effortlessly through the abandonment of the egoistic self.
In Zen, you go beyond words and images to a direct experience of what is REAL - what is known as the ultimate truth about the self, or Nirvana.
Do not look for Zen; it is right in the midst of your being. You need not search for it: you will be "awakened" to it.
“If a man seeks the Buddha, the man loses the Buddha.” Lin Chi
Likewise, Zen is the state of mind that you experience, not something that you need to seek painstakingly.
The following Zen poem depicts the gist of knowing the real self, which is no-self.
"If you want to be free,
Get to know your real self.
It has no form, no appearance,
No root, no basis, no abode,
But is lively and buoyant.
It responds with versatile facility,
But its function cannot be located.
Therefore when you look for it,
You become further from it;
When you seek it,
You turn away from it all the more."
Linji
Through Zen meditation, you may come to an awareness of the true nature of the self. You may be simply "awakened" to it. But non-enlightenment may persist for a while.
"It is as though you have an eye
That sees all forms
But does not see itself.
This is how your mind is.
Its light penetrates everywhere
And engulfs everything,
So why does it not know itself?"
Foyan
To be "awakened" is to know the true nature of the self.
So, what is the true nature of the self?
In Zen, the true nature of the self is "no self."
According to Zen, your memory connects your daily interactions with happenings into a series, and thus creating the illusion that there is a constant, single self experiencing those happenings in your life. In Zen, there is no single self, or "no self", but only a series of individual happenings.
With the notion of "no self", you will then begin to see that whatever happens in your life is only the present manifestation of your life at that very moment. Accordingly, you will have a totally different perspective of the meaning of life.
"The past is already past.
Don’t try to regain it.
The present does not stay.
Don’t try to touch it.
From moment to moment.
The future has not come;
Don’t think about it
Beforehand. . . ."
Layman P’ang
"When mortals are alive, they worry about death.
When they're full, they worry about hunger.
Theirs is the Great Uncertainty.
But sages don't consider the past.
And they don't worry about the future.
Nor do they cling to the present.
And from moment to moment they follow the Way."
Bodhidharma
Zen health is simple: There is "no-self." Just live your life, and embrace everything that may come your way.
Practice Zen meditation on a daily basis, and you may be awakened to the enlightenment of the true self.
· Take off your shoes, and sit comfortably in a full or half lotus position (one or both legs up over the others).
· Keep your spine straight. Do not lean over.
· Put your right hand palm up, facing you, near your belly button.
· Place your left hand gently in your right hand, with thumbs touching each other.
· Keep your eyes open. Look down or straight ahead of you. Do not focus on anything.
· Be still. Do nothing. Simply experience all that is going on around you.
· Pay attention to your breath, counting from one to ten to focus your concentration. Focusing on your breathing takes you away from the "mind clutter" that often invades your conscious self.
· Let your thoughts come and go. Do not “stop thinking.” Just “notice” your thoughts. Do not chase or fight them; just let them drift.
Throughout Zen meditation, your mind is turning inward and becoming more aware of what is going on. Imperceptibly, your thoughts diminish in intensity, and issues that arise become resolved by themselves.
With more practice and perseverance, you may become even "enlightened."
Remember, Zen meditation, like anything else in Zen, cannot be taught; it can only be experienced. See if you can experience your own "awakening" or Nirvana, and stop your egoistic self that prevents you from living a healthy Zen lifestyle.
Zen Sleep teaches you techniques to balance your mind, body, and spirit through the practice of Zen psychic sleep. It enhances your sex drive and stimulates your body's own healing process. You can experience the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual Zen-like calm.
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Zen health holds the key to longevity. Zen is the way to longevity living.
Well, what is Zen or the way of Zen?
Contrary to popular belief, Zen is not a religious belief. Despite having its origin from Buddha, Zen is not the foundation of Buddhism.
The word “Zen” is Japanese, but it derives from the Chinese, meaning “meditation.” It is an Oriental mental practice for self-enlightenment. More specifically, Zen is a transcendental mental state that affects the overall physical and mental being of an individual, and therefore conducive to longevity living.
Tiger Woods utilizes Zen for his golfing success. In fact, just about anyone can apply the way of Zen to just about anything in his or her everyday living. Zen is an unconventional thinking that may defy the rational mind: it is worldliness that is not worldly. Zen living is Zen health for longevity living.
So, what exactly is Zen, or Zen health?
Simply put, Zen is intuitive knowing. According to Plato, the great philosopher, life is a process of “forgetting” - episodes of experiences and happenings that may tend to make you “forget” the ultimate truth of living, which you are supposed to know intuitively. The way of Zen is to re-discover that inherent wisdom of knowing the eternal truth that may have eluded you in the process of living, and that awakening to the ultimate truth is Nirvana.
In Zen health, one is a better physician for you than yourself, and nobody has the wisdom to know your body's real needs other than yourself. So, in Zen health, everything begins with YOU!
Zen is the way: Stop looking for a quick fix in life!
The way of Zen living is simple: Life is NEVER a problem. If life is a problem, it is because YOU have created the problem for yourself. If there is no problem, why do you need a solution? Fixing a non-existing problem in life is only creating more problems.
Don’t seek a solution to your problems in life, and don’t look for a quick fix for a problem that may not even exist in the first place.
Likewise, if you have a health problem, probably YOU have created the health problem for yourself.
You are not supposed to get sick. Your Creator has given you an immune system to protect you from disease. The way of Zen is a way of pursuing Zen health, which does just that - to protect you from disease through natural healing.
Don’t readily and voluntarily reach out for pharmaceutical drugs as a quick fix. All drugs are toxic chemicals. As such, they may only suppress the symptoms of a health problem, but never eradicate the causes of that health problem. Taking pharmaceutical drugs not only impairs your immune system, but also makes your body more acidic, and hence eventually more toxic and more susceptible to disease. A toxic environment is not conducive to cellular renewal, thereby depriving your body the opportunity of natural healing.
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, once said: “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” Don't deprive your body of that opportunity of natural healing. The Zen lifestyle embraces patience and spontaneity. Be natural with the cure, and be patient with the recovery.
Remember, longevity living is always drug free. Don’t create a problem where there is none. A healthy lifestyle is always free from drugs. A pharmaceutical drug may create more problems than it solves.
Given the very toxic nature of pharmaceutical drugs, do not reach out for an over-the-counter drug without thinking; even for any prescription drug, you should be cautious before taking it. Give your body its natural healing power that it deserves.
· Your high cholesterol can be controlled without the use of drugs. The 60 Day Prescription Free Cholesterol Cure shows you how to maintain healthy cholesterol levels as well as lower your cholesterol naturally without the use of statin drugs.
· Your heart disease can be reversed drug free: How to Prevent or Even Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery is about preventing and reversing heart disease without drugs or invasive procedures. Robert D. Willix Jr., who has been a surgeon for 30 years, has pioneered preventive medicine and natural cures instrumental in preventing and reversing heart disease, without surgery or drugs. Some of his groundbreaking findings include: contrary to conventional wisdom, raising cholesterol level can protect the heart; and taking an aspirin a day can increase the risk for heart attack, among others. Robert D. Willix Jr. also reveals the “secrets” that the mainstream medicine and big pharmaceutical companies would not like you to know, and they certainly don't want you to go drug free. This is an enlightening book highly recommended for anyone who wishes to have a healthy heart drug free. For a healthy lifestyle, go for natural healing.
· Cancer can be treated drug free. Natural Cancer Treatments is a collection of over 350 natural and alternative cancer treatments. More than 80 percent of surveyed oncologists stated that they would refuse chemotherapy if they had cancer, and that they would surely want the benefits of these treatments for themselves and their families. In addition, former Western Australian Premier John Tonkin stated, "There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that this is the most advanced form of cancer treatment in the world today." This is an excellent book on cancer cure without the use of drugs.
(If you wish to know more about cancer treatment the natural way, go to my website Cancer Treatment Options.)
· Your insomnia can be eliminated drug free. Psyche Sleep shows you how to double your energy levels and naturally transforms your body into a restful sleep magnet through calmness and meditation. If you have a sleep problem, this may be the drug-free answer to your problem. Find out how to pursue a healthy lifestyle by having a night of good sleep drug free.
The medical community and the media would have you believe that taking drugs seems to be the only option for a healthy lifestyle. Drugs are unsafe.
On May 21, 2007, based on a recent research conducted by Dr. Steven Nissen at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the FDA expressed concern regarding the safety of Avandia, a pill widely prescribed by doctors to treat type 2 diabetes. The groundbreaking research findings suggested that the risk of a heart attack was increased 43 percent among those taking the drug, and that there was a 64 percent increased risk of dying from cardiovascular causes, compared with patients not taking the drug. This is yet another strong testament to the dubious safety of many pharmaceutical drugs. For a healthy lifestyle, go drug free.
If you need good herbal supplements, instead of toxic pharmaceutical drugs, go to Herbal Remedies, which is a one-stop place for all your herbal needs and vitamin supplements. In addition, you can get useful health information regarding common ailments. which can often be treated the natural way with natural herbs.
(Also, for more information on herbal cures, visit my website Herbal Cures for natural healing for Zen health.)
Zen health is free from the use of drugs: Zen living focuses on spontaneity of things, that is, letting Nature run its course).
Zen is the way: Stop creating stress in life!
Contemporary way of life is often an unhealthy lifestyle: it is much like living in a pressure cooker. The endless challenges, demands, and goals continue to churn out stress in every form. That way of life is not Zen health.
Life is stressful. Some experts even suggest that “appropriate” stress may be conducive to good health. You just wonder. Anyway, life doesn't have to be stressful. Zen health should be free from any kind of undue stress. Don't create unnecessary stress in your life! Longevity living or Zen lifestyle should always be stress free.
How do you unwittingly create stress in your life?
According to Zen living, life is never a problem, and Zen lifestyle is never meant to be stressful. But, unfortunately, it is your mind that has created the problem in the first place, and hence the stress.
Logically, a problem requires a solution. Your thinking mind presents to you a number of options to solve the problem you have created for yourself. Your rational mind then begins to analyze and choose; and stress is thus created in the process of analyzing and choosing. In Zen, the rational mind is not a friend, but quite often an enemy, of Zen health.
Your stress is further reinforced if you made the wrong choice: you become ridden with guilt and regret over your choice.
The way of Zen health is simple: Do not make life into a problem, and there will be no problem. Do not look backward. Do not look forward. Just being present completely and fully.
Yes, Zen focuses on the present moment - not the past, and surely not the future.
Alas, we are living in a goal-setting world in mad pursuit of fame, fortune and success. The way of Zen, on the other hand, accomplishes things without exerting undue efforts.
Lin Yutang, the great contemporary Chinese philosopher, aptly epitomizes the paradox of the wisdom "accomplishing things without much doing" in his famous quotation: "A wise man is never busy, and a busy man is never wise."
But Zen living is by no means inactive and passive.
Zen focuses only on the present (always the present moment), not the past (dwelling on the past may make you judgmental and remorseful), and surely not the future (expectations in the future may make you anxious and frustrated). In other words, in Zen health, you focus only on the process, not the result, of doing things. It is tantamount to the Christian concept of “doing your best, and letting God do the rest!”; or what Jesus said in the Lord's prayer "Give us this day our daily bread." God does not promise you a tomorrow, and man proposes but God disposes. Just do what you must do at this very present moment, and do not be anxious of the outcome. Concentrate on the "doing", and not the expectations of the result. This is the way of Zen!
The problem with most of us is that we permit our rational mind to be in control. We desperately want to get things done our way, and in doing so have created undue stress in our lives. Remember, the rational mind is more of an enemy than a friend in the Zen healthy lifestyle.
(To find out what world religions have to say about stress control, go to my website World Religions on Stress Control. Also, go to my website Physical Exercise to get all the resources to use exercise for de-stressing yourself, if need be. A word of warning: exercise may be good for your stress, but over-exercise is not conducive to Zen health.)
In addition, life is not a problem but may become a problem when you selectively welcome only good experiences but reject the bad ones. In Zen health, learn to accept and embrace all that life brings you, and live the present moment to the fullest in spite of the bad experiences.
“The perfect Way is without difficulty,
Save that it avoids picking and choosing.
Only when you stop liking and disliking
Will all be clearly understood.
A split hair’s difference,
And heaven and earth are set apart.
If you want to get the plain truth,
Be not concerned with right and wrong.
The conflict between right and wrong
Is the sickness of the mind.”
An old Zen poem
Because you want only the good experiences in life, you will do anything not only just to repeat those good experiences in the future, but also to avoid the bad experiences in the past. This is how you have created stress along the way.
Zen health is simple: Go back to the beginning, and be a child again.
According to Plato, life is a process of “forgetting.” Therefore, we need to go back to the beginning - children have no past and no future, and everything is present to them. This simple mental state is the way of Zen!
In Zen, you remember where you came from, who you are, and where you are heading. In real life, many rush through their lives without knowing who they are, where they are going; they pursue one goal after another, and in their pursuit they lose their true purpose of living - this is not the way of Zen, which alone can instill deep peace internalized.
Zen health is simple: Intuit the profound wisdom of not knowing anything. Ignorance may be bliss.
Go back to the beginning. Have a child-like mind to re-claim the excitement, joy, and adventurous spirit that have been lost amidst the hustle and bustle of modern living.
Make your life simple. Have a simple healthy lifestyle. Do away all the clutters in your life. Clutters of the past may clutter your present and your future life. Live only at the present moment, and only that very present moment is important to you. This is Zen health at the simplest!
Zen health begins at where you live. Creating empty space in your physical world simultaneously creates empty and open space in your life. Declutter Your House is a home-coaching program on helping you free yourself of clutters conducive to stress, thereby creating space necessary for Zen health. It helps you get rid of the clutters even before you “get organized.” Getting rid of clutters can make a difference to the energy of your home - which is, by the way, good feng shui. You can always apply quick and easy feng shui principles to your newly de-cluttered home.
Begin Zen health by getting rid of your physical clutters at home.
Zen is the way: Stop craving more and more!
The way of Zen living is simple: Let life tell you what you NEED, not what you WANT.
Your wants are your imaginary needs, which can never be fulfilled. Even if they were satisfied, you would crave more and more. Not only do you want everything in life, but you also want to hold onto it forever.
But Zen focuses on the moment, and each moment remains with that moment. In this respect, the universe is forever changing. Therefore, any attachment is futile and unnatural. Imaginary needs only beget delusions, which precipitate confusion and distress in life.
“All things in the universe are illusory and impermanent, yet the individual craves and cleaves to them. This very fundamental Ignorance is called 'Wu-ming', which is non-enlightenment.” Chang Chan
Stop craving more and more. And you will then become enlightened: your deepest need in life is to be who you really are, and all other things in life are just dispensable extras and non-essentials.
“The five colors cause one’s eyes to be bold.
The five tones cause one’s ears to be deaf.
The five flavors cause one’s palate to be spoiled.
Racing and hunting cause one’s mind to be mad.
Goods that are hard to get cause one’s heart to be restless.”
Lao Tzu
Zen health is simple: Empty your cup, and find out what is most valuable in your life. In a changing world, any attachment to anything is no more than "false" security.
Zen is the way: Stop suffering from pain!
Depression is a disease of the mind - a manifestation of deep internal pain. Many individuals suffering from depression have a distorted perception of self-worth. Instead of accepting who they are, they want to be what they wish they would like to become. Their hunger for that realty often fosters delusions and a host of other mental problems, such as confusion and distress. Depression is not Zen health.
(Find out how to heal your depression by using your mind from my website Rethink Your Depression, which shows you how to develop new perspectives on your depression.)
A depressed individual may feel the pain (which is real to that individual), but does not have to suffer from the pain.
In life, pain may not be an option, but suffering is often a choice. Sadly, suffering is often unknowingly self-inflicted through explanation, rationalization, and over-indulgence. With or without them, the pain is still there, whether you like it or not. You need not welcome or reject it. But you don't have to turn your pain into perpetual suffering. The pain is there, but you need not prolong your suffering unnecessarily.
According to Buddha, all pain comes from desire. Longing for something you cannot have creates pain. In life, pain occurs when expectations are not met. In Zen, every moment remains with that moment. For this reason, everything is changing, and impermanent. To desire or crave permanence from something impermanent is a disease of the mind.
Unlike modern psychiatry, the way of Zen is not to question, analyze, or dwell upon pain. Modern psychiatry analyzes emotional pain in an attempt to avoid that pain. Ironically, according to Zen, this is how the setting for suffering is created. Zen health may not be free from pain, but it is certainly free from suffering, which is often self-induced and self-inflicted. Don't rationalize your pain; just accept it.
Zen health is simple: Pain is natural. Just learn how to receive it.
“To separate what we like from what we dislike is the disease of the mind” Sosan
In Zen, pain is simply pain: nothing more and nothing less. Striving to explain it, or dwell upon it, is depression, which is unhealthy living.
7 Steps To A Depression-Free Life explains in detail how you can overcome your depression in seven steps without the use of drugs. If you have been battling depression with prescription drugs, maybe you will find in this book other alternative treatments to help you go drug free. Depression is a disease of the mind. Learn how to control it instead of letting it control you.
Bipolar Disorder Uncovered is a comprehensive book on the medical side of bipolar depression, the different treatments available, the monitoring of medications, and the benefits of psychotherapy. Bipolar depression is a devastating disorder. Reclaim your life using the strategies outlined in the book.
Zen health is simple: Hold all of life in the palm of your hands. Trust your inner strength and wisdom.
Change the way you think about yourself through meditation, which is the precursor of intuitive wisdom.
(Find out how to discipline your thoughts to avoid depression in life from my website: The Pillar of Mind Power.)
Zen is the way: Stop looking for love!
To many, failed relationships are painful. In our contemporary society, divorces are commonplace.
Why is a good love relationship so difficult to come by? Or why do good relationships fail?
Zen health is simple: Love without expectations.
Love is a gift, but you must be ready to receive it. Surprisingly, many people are just not ready. They come to love with many expectations, and when these expectations fail, love turns into pain.
But real love does not hurt, because real love is not a feeling; instead, it is a way of being. Real love is neither conditional nor dependent on someone or something else. Real love is simply an act, a deed.
Zen health is simple: Feel good about yourself for who and what you are. Love means never having to use another person to make you feel better.
Real love is built of deeds. You do not feel love: you "do" love. When you "do" love, you are loving, and loving others, you are being loved. Love is made up of loving deeds, not feelings. Love, dependent on feelings, is infatuation, not real love. Real love is without expectations, and therefore it never hurts.
This is a common scenario of how a love relationship may end.
You want love, but you may be afraid to receive it. This is often the irony in a love relationship.
The problem (in Zen wisdom, there is never a problem) is that you are looking for a "perfect" love relationship or the "right" person to make you "happy" about yourself.
In your subconscious mind, that "perfect" love relationship or the "right" person can make you "happy" because deep in your mind a "good" love relationship is supposed to make you "feel good" about yourself. In other words, you are using that "right" person to reinforce your self-image, thereby unwittingly creating the "fear" in your subconscious mind, because your “well-being” then becomes too dependent on that "right" person, so to speak.
When that "right" person does turn up in your life, you may feel inadequate, undeserving, or simply incomplete. Subconsciously, you feel the relationship may not last, and you may consciously or subconsciously "anticipate" the inevitable rejection that you think will inevitably happen one day. Then you start picking fights and testing the other person constantly (in fits of anger and jealousy), even though deep down you may want that love relationship to last. Ironically, it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is how a love relationship may turn sour and end unhappily.
Zen health is simple: You are the “perfect” person just as you are, and so is your partner.
If you cannot love yourself completely, you cannot love another person. It is just that simple. If you cannot accept something unpleasant or incomplete in yourself, you cannot accept something else that you think is unpleasant and incomplete in another person. If you reject that person, you are in fact rejecting a part of yourself that you do not like.
In a love relationship, you often begin to "mask" what you do not like about yourself, hiding from that "right" person. You are afraid of giving yourself frankly and opening yourself completely, and accepting yourself just as you really are. If you don't take off that mask of yours, you will only make any love relationship difficult to last.
Zen health is simple: Accept what is good and bad in a love relationship; you cannot take just the good and discard the bad. A love relationship is there to tell you what you need, not what you want.
Zen is the way: Stop disease and sickness!
The way of Zen living is simple: Do not label yourself sick, or mentally ill. Sickness is but a human condition. Labeling only compounds the problem of sickness.
Physical pain, often manifested in the form of symptoms of a disease, is nothing but a warning sign that there is imbalance in your body, which is the underlying cause of the symptoms. In other words, the physical pain is telling you that you may need Zen health. Remember, rejecting something repeatedly never makes it go away.
Zen health is based on the concept of balance and harmony.
(For more information on the balance and harmony of "yin" and "yang" in the Oriental living, visit my website: The Pillar of Balance and Harmony.
In Zen health, you realize you must become stronger than the pain. Fighting and resisting the pain only intensify the pain.
In Zen health, you say “yes” to whatever that may come your way.
“Sometimes we receive the power to say 'yes' to life
Then peace enters us and makes us whole.”
Emerson
Natural healing coming from within brings inner peace with it.
Nature does not struggle. Like Nature, your Zen health is your natural state of being.
Just be where you are. Allow the divine nature of things into your life. Notice every detail of your environment: be aware of the beauty, joy, and wonder of all aspects of life, such as the sound of birds, the radiant sunlight, and the whisper of wind. Treasure every moment - it will not come again. Only this awareness will bring about natural healing of the mind and the body.
Natural healing comes from not only learning to say “yes” to all of your experiences but also being willing to experience them just as they are. Wholesome wellness emerges from the balance and harmony of all parts within you.
(Read my book NO MIRACLE CURES - Only Wholesome Self-Healing.)
You will know that your body has attained internal balance - which holds the key to wellness - when the acid and alkaline level in your body becomes balanced, neutralizing each other.
The Acid-Alkaline Diet Simplified provides excellent information on how to alkalize your diet. Many experts believe that a balance of acidity and alkalinity, known as your balanced pH level in your body, will make you disease free. It is an anti-aging diet to help your body rejuvenate from years of toxic abuse. Eating a balanced acid-alkaline diet is a healthy lifestyle for everyone - it is the way of Zen!
To begin any healing, you must change your attitudes. Persistent negative attitudes become wounds in your life. If you feel that life is meaningless, your body may begin to express that negative attitude by shriveling up and dying.
With a positive state mind, you must adopt a healthy lifestyle to cleanse your body of toxins, which may have accumulated over the years from toxic chemicals, toxic drugs, and toxic foods - and even toxic thoughts. Detoxification initiates rejuvenation necessary for recovery.
The simplest way to detoxify a toxic body is by fasting.
(For more information, go to my website: Fasting.)
You may also cleanse your body through diet and nutrition. The 10 Step Detox Program is an effective nutrition and diet program designed to cleanse your body of toxins. The Detox Kit contains more than 100 pages of nutritional information, with 10 steps to detoxify your body, hair analysis to find out the extent of your toxicity, pH test strips to determine your body's acid-alkaline level, and vitamins supplements to detoxify your body. Dr. Janet Starr Hull is a recognized expert on alternative healing through nutrition. Follow her steps in your healthy lifestyle for natural healing and health rejuvenation.
Zen health requires the daily use of water as an effective medium for internal cleansing.
The Detox Bath uses NOTHING but water to help your body flush out toxins and excess fat. It is a tool that nature graciously provides you to help you maintain your body and health in optimal condition. Make water detoxification a part of your Zen health.
You may use Complete Body Cleanse to detoxify your body.
You may also use the Oriental way of detoxification for natural healing: using foot patches. Oriental foot patches are 100 percent natural. These foot patches literally suck the toxins out of your body when they are attached to your feet while you sleep. The discolored foot patches attest to the removal of all the toxins from your body.
After your initial detoxification, maintain your health with super foods. If possible, learn to go the Ultimate Organic Lifestyle too.
Healing and natural healing may begin anytime. Wherever you are is the entry point for natural healing. Just say “yes” to everything, and have a positive Zen mentality for Zen health. Physical wellness has to be reinforced by spiritual wellness in order for complete natural healing to take place.
Find out more about Zen living and mentality from Living By Zen. Discover the 2,000-year-old Zen secret to feeling calm, balanced, and positive no matter what is going on in your life. This is an excellent book on the philosophy and the psychology of Zen. You will be working with both Zen principles and psychology to discover exactly what it is that causes pain, crisis, and sorrow, and how to turn them quickly around to benefit your well-being. Discover why most relationships are not working and what is needed to change that. Discover your Zen from Living By Zen.
When you have emptied your mind, you begin to experience the mind itself. In the emptiness of pure consciousness, there is an awakening to the oneness of self and all life. In this state of sublime enlightenment, you will realize the need of living a life of "no problem", and healing will thus begin.
Zen is the way: Stop the egoistic self!
Zen health is simple: Zen is a state of being, of total control. Zen is the ability to perform and accomplish everyday tasks effortlessly through the abandonment of the egoistic self.
In Zen, you go beyond words and images to a direct experience of what is REAL - what is known as the ultimate truth about the self, or Nirvana.
Do not look for Zen; it is right in the midst of your being. You need not search for it: you will be "awakened" to it.
“If a man seeks the Buddha, the man loses the Buddha.” Lin Chi
Likewise, Zen is the state of mind that you experience, not something that you need to seek painstakingly.
The following Zen poem depicts the gist of knowing the real self, which is no-self.
"If you want to be free,
Get to know your real self.
It has no form, no appearance,
No root, no basis, no abode,
But is lively and buoyant.
It responds with versatile facility,
But its function cannot be located.
Therefore when you look for it,
You become further from it;
When you seek it,
You turn away from it all the more."
Linji
Through Zen meditation, you may come to an awareness of the true nature of the self. You may be simply "awakened" to it. But non-enlightenment may persist for a while.
"It is as though you have an eye
That sees all forms
But does not see itself.
This is how your mind is.
Its light penetrates everywhere
And engulfs everything,
So why does it not know itself?"
Foyan
To be "awakened" is to know the true nature of the self.
So, what is the true nature of the self?
In Zen, the true nature of the self is "no self."
According to Zen, your memory connects your daily interactions with happenings into a series, and thus creating the illusion that there is a constant, single self experiencing those happenings in your life. In Zen, there is no single self, or "no self", but only a series of individual happenings.
With the notion of "no self", you will then begin to see that whatever happens in your life is only the present manifestation of your life at that very moment. Accordingly, you will have a totally different perspective of the meaning of life.
"The past is already past.
Don’t try to regain it.
The present does not stay.
Don’t try to touch it.
From moment to moment.
The future has not come;
Don’t think about it
Beforehand. . . ."
Layman P’ang
"When mortals are alive, they worry about death.
When they're full, they worry about hunger.
Theirs is the Great Uncertainty.
But sages don't consider the past.
And they don't worry about the future.
Nor do they cling to the present.
And from moment to moment they follow the Way."
Bodhidharma
Zen health is simple: There is "no-self." Just live your life, and embrace everything that may come your way.
Practice Zen meditation on a daily basis, and you may be awakened to the enlightenment of the true self.
· Take off your shoes, and sit comfortably in a full or half lotus position (one or both legs up over the others).
· Keep your spine straight. Do not lean over.
· Put your right hand palm up, facing you, near your belly button.
· Place your left hand gently in your right hand, with thumbs touching each other.
· Keep your eyes open. Look down or straight ahead of you. Do not focus on anything.
· Be still. Do nothing. Simply experience all that is going on around you.
· Pay attention to your breath, counting from one to ten to focus your concentration. Focusing on your breathing takes you away from the "mind clutter" that often invades your conscious self.
· Let your thoughts come and go. Do not “stop thinking.” Just “notice” your thoughts. Do not chase or fight them; just let them drift.
Throughout Zen meditation, your mind is turning inward and becoming more aware of what is going on. Imperceptibly, your thoughts diminish in intensity, and issues that arise become resolved by themselves.
With more practice and perseverance, you may become even "enlightened."
Remember, Zen meditation, like anything else in Zen, cannot be taught; it can only be experienced. See if you can experience your own "awakening" or Nirvana, and stop your egoistic self that prevents you from living a healthy Zen lifestyle.
Zen Sleep teaches you techniques to balance your mind, body, and spirit through the practice of Zen psychic sleep. It enhances your sex drive and stimulates your body's own healing process. You can experience the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual Zen-like calm.
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