Unsui Zen Meditation Journal

A blank page is hard. A question isn't. Answer a few, and somewhere in the answering you find out what you were thinking. And the words stay. Read them back a week later and they tell you something you didn't know you knew. SIT AND BREATHE There are two ways to settle: your breath, and your words. A single circle fills and empties in the middle of the screen. Breathe along with it for five minutes, or twenty. On the days there's nothing to write, let this be the whole of it. Add the sound of rain or the sea, and end on a soft bell. IN THE EVENING, YOU ARE ASKED "At the end of the day, what heaviness or lightness does your body feel?" "What brought warmth to your heart today?" A few questions come to you. Answering is enough — there's no need to write well. Somewhere in the answering, things sort themselves out. FOR THE NIGHTS YOU DON'T WAIT TO BE ASKED Start talking whenever you like.…