Thought you'd enjoy it so I'm posting it here. Since I'm working on a new book about Zen coffee meditations, I thought it might be fun to meditate on a happy cup of coffee for a while.
Coffee is so much more than a way to wake up in the morning; it's a way to center and focus your thoughts. It's a way to tune into the calm, peaceful essence of your inner self.
Today, right now, is a day of love. It is a day for enhancing relationships, rekindling feelings, letting love into your heart, and opening your soul to expand the love. It’s a day for bringing love into your life and for strengthening the love you have. It’s a day for forgiving past hurts and freeing yourself to move forward. It’s a day for healing your heart. It’s a day of loving yourself.
You may be wondering how to meditate by coffee.
How can you meditate if you're all stressed out or jazzed on coffee?
Well, it's a koan... that's the nature of Zen.
A koan is a Zen Buddhist riddle that has no easy answer; it may be
totally illogical in nature and it appears to be a paradox.
Zen and coffee don't seem to mix. Or do they? It seems they'd be completely opposite to one another, but part of the mystery of the koan is that they are truly in harmony.
What do you suppose the koan means? How do caffeine and calm mix together in a cup of coffee?Ponder this for a few mindful moments before you read the next paragraph.
The paradox of meditating by coffee is that mindfully meditating is not separate from any of your experiences; it is a basic, integral part of everything in your life and can be incorporated into every thought, feeling, and experience you have, much in the same manner that caffeine and calm — which are seeming opposites — poured into the same coffee cup are a perfect blend of meditation and mindfulness.
ZEN COFFEE is available at Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords.
Wondering how caffeine and calm, stirred into the same coffee cup, can help you mindfully meditate?
It offers many ways to bring peace and serenity into all your experiences and day-to-day activities.
Zen Coffee uses coffee as a metaphor for mindfully meditating and tuning into the calm, peaceful essence of your inner nature as you zip through the Zen of daily life.
As you race through the hectic pace of life with your coffee cup in hand, you'll find a moment or two to de-stress and drink in the essence of Zen... the essence of your inner nature.
It would seem that coffee and Zen don't mix. Or do they? Inside these pages you'll
discover how to:
A few moments of mindfulness scattered here and there puts the caffeine calm of Zen Coffee into your life.
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