Everyday Zen

Everyday Zen explains the philosophy of a meaningful life and teaches you how to reinvent yourself by accepting the grand wisdom and energy of the universe and learning to sit still, have more compassion, love more, and find beauty in your life.

Similar to the Stoic philosophy, being Zen promotes loving your fate and the present moment. Living by some self-imposed standards that you inherit from society and the expectations that come with the conventional definition of success will only hurt you in the long run. Instead, work on being happy with what you currently have and loving your fate. Why? Because even if you don’t, it won’t change a thing.

You’re still going to be living in the same body, having the same soul, traits, and the life you’re living. Therefore, why not choose to love it and decide that your life is more about the “right here right now”, rather than “when x will happen, then I’ll be happy”? At the end of the day, it’s truly just a matter of choice, of perception, and the more you work on your mind and the way you relate to your experience, the more you’ll enjoy life.

In the process, you’ll encounter hardship, such as discomfort, sickness, negative emotions, and many other challenges. However, as soon as you learn to accept those as a natural part of human development, life, and your present moment, the less they’ll affect you. Therefore, this is the key to becoming Zen, or unbothered in the life journey you’re enjoying every day, just as it is.

From the moment we wake up, to the moment we fall asleep, life is all about making choices. However, many of us relate to those decisions as problems. Whether we like it or not, we’re going to have to face them anyway. Imagine how your life would look if every day you woke up you’d be upset with the fact that you have to choose whether to eat breakfast or brush your teeth first. So if the nature of life implies decision-making, why get upset with the big ones? You have to brush your teeth, or you have to move to a different city. At the end of the day, they’re decisions to be made. Start your day with the premise that you’ll make decisions, and lots of them. Turn this into your mindset and acknowledge that as a universal truth about life, and when you’re faced with decisions of greater importance, hold on to this idea. Why? Because even if you don’t, you’ll still have to go through the process, make a final choice, and go through with it, and it’ll happen many times in your life. Eventually,…