» December 21 2012 Zazen Life

Operating Your Flesh Vehicle

February 13, 2012 by @dieselpokers 9 Comments

Your Very Own Flesh Vehicle

We all are in a temporary state.

We all are going to live, then die. There is nothing that can change that.

We all get to operate our very own flesh vehicle for that temporary amount of time.

What you choose to do with your vehicle is up to you. You may choose to fuel it with healthy foods and supplements, or you may decide to destroy it with harmful drugs and chemicals.

You can use your vehicle to pilot you through an amazing life of love and creativity, or you can pilot yourself through pain, suffering, and hardship.

What is the best way to operate this vehicle you might ask?

Answering that question is difficult because we all want to achieve different things in our lives. We all don’t want the same thing, but at the same time, WE ARE THE SAME THING.

We are all in the same race with one similar goal, evolution.

Our goal is to reproduce, and teach our offspring all the lessons we have learned through our lives.

As you already know, there are many parents in this world who aren’t teaching their children how to evolve. They aren’t evolving either. They are stuck in a rut of negativity and project that negativity onto those they come in contact with, especially their children.

These are the type of people that need to have their ego obliterated right in front of their face.

These are the people who could really use some meditation.

There are too many people in this world who have not tuned into what the main goal of our whole race is.

They are the cancer to our whole race.

They are the ones who try to bring us down.

They are the ones that will die first.

Survival of the fittest.

We have gone through a terrible phase as a race throughout the last few hundred years.

Things are about to change.

Positive thinking is taking the lead.

Stay tuned because come December 21st, 2012, things will be a little different. I don’t know exactly how or if there will be some sort of “event” but I can tell you this, the earth is evolving. We are part of the earth, so we are evolving with it at the same time.

My prediction is that at the end of 2012, as a majority, we will tune into a higher consciousness. A higher awareness of our true identity and goals as a race. Everything that has happened in the past will be old news, and we will move on. We will move on to something we all truly deserve. A peaceful and loving world free of negativity and full of positive people working to make this spaceship we call home a wonderful place to live out our temporary states.

Enjoy your flesh vehicle!

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A Guest Post From Lou Catarino on 2012

January 3, 2012 by thezazenlifeteam 6 Comments

This is a guest post from one of our loyal readers, Lou Catarino.

You can read Lou’s blog @ https://talesfromthelou.wordpress.com/

Zazen & 2012

2012 is here.

Now what?

Do we really have only 11 more months to live?

Is this the apocalypse?

The end of times?

We really are self-centered as a species.

We think that everything is there for us. Countless species have disappeared since life begun but we think we are the only one that matters.

Are we really the only animals that are self-aware ?

Have you seen a primate looking at the horizon at sunset for no apparent reason ?

The Mayan Calendar

Perhaps the Mayans were onto something.

We have been a species now for thousands of years.

They had the incredible ability to understand the stars and, maybe, the cosmos.

Where did they get the knowledge ? Why did their calendar end this year ? Or does it ? Did they just run out of rock like the cartoon says ?

It’s a big hoopla with lots of bells and whistles.

After all, December 21 2012 just means it is the end of a Mayan baktun:

“A baktun (properly b’ak’tun) is 20 katun cycles of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar. It contains 144,000 days, equal to 394.26 tropical years. The Classic period of Maya civilization occurred during the 8th and 9th baktuns of the current calendrical cycle. The current (13th) baktun will end, or be completed, on 13.0.0.0.0 (December 21, 2012 using the GMT correlation). This also marks the beginning of the 14th baktun, as such a term is usually used among Mayanists.”

So let us celebrate the beginning of the new baktun from now on.

I welcome you 14th baktun!

Meanwhile, the big illusion will continue to dazzle us with its enticing array of smells, ideas, stories, people, sunrises, etc., and it tailors itself to each and everyone of us.

We are special indeed.

Which brings me to zazen and the new year.

We all know that discipline is required in any worthwhile pursuit.

If you are a procrastinator you do know that the first step is always the most difficult. We have to give the brain circuitry time to adapt itself to the new reality.

But it works.

Neuroplasticity has proven it.

Buddhist Monks

This has to be one of the most intense eras of the human race. The rate of speed that knowledge spreading is mind boggling. We are communicating at the speed of light, no?

No wonder the powers that be are scared. Or are they?

I want to believe that a new world will emerge from all of this yet I wonder about the eternal samsara and all. Are we just deluding ourselves about social justice and a new world order based on the wants of the 99 percenters ? Or will the present day feudal lords continue to maintain their iron grip over the world’s money supply ?

Create a dream.

Make people want it.

Make it accessible by issuing paper and call it money.

We are all therefore indebted.

I would like the coming year to reflect all the previous years of growth from my own life all all the masters since antiquity. We all know what to do.

This is my first step.

It is a series of efforts that I aim for every day.

And it changes , like a scented wind entering a village, continuously.

Water. Zazen. Sunshine. Diet. Community. Sacred herb. Exercise. Yoga…and everything else that works.

-Lou