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So we have this mystical Eastern wisdom trying to tell us that we should become liberated from our ego. What’s the big deal about ego? Even if we can see that an ego isn’t all that important (or even all that beneficial) to carry around, we still can’t get rid of it! […]

Answer this question:
What keeps the planets in revolution around the sun?
Now, we’ll come back to that in a moment. But first, let’s talk about something called Awareness. Usually, we think of Awareness as being aware of the things around us, such as cars and people and chocolate.
But what we fail to see is that […]

Zen asks us to do a very strange thing. It asks us to ‘act without acting’. What does this mean? I’ve explained it in other articles, such as the article on Wu Wei, but sometimes we need a practical example to make things clear.
Let’s get straight. ‘Intentionless Action’ seems to be […]