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Purpose and Meaning

How To Know Your Job As A Human

March 5, 2020 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

We get stopped, so many of us, because we don’t trust ourselves. We don’t trust our own natures to guide us. Instead, we keep our focus on our desires and goals and then get frightened we won’t get them. Concentrating on our worries, we ignore the constant guidance given to us in each moment.

Filed Under: Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality and Personal Growth, Zen and Meditation

Peace Of Mind Is Not Everything

February 18, 2020 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Zen Master Seung Sahn used to say that there are two kinds of work. Inside work and outside work. Inside work means keeping a non-moving mind and outside work means helping all beings. Being concerned only about inside work is not correct Zen practice. Only inside work means nirvana and peace of mind only for […]

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality and Personal Growth

The Questions of Life

February 18, 2020 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

“The sun in the sky shines everywhere, why does a cloud obscure it?” Kong-ans (koans) are word puzzles which are used in the Zen tradition of which I am a part to help us deal with the conundrums of life. If you can penetrate the conundrums presented to you by your teacher, then maybe you […]

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, How To Be Alive, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality and Personal Growth, Zen and Meditation

Envisioning Your Best Possible Self

February 18, 2020 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I wanted to share with you a simple 15-minute writing exercise that is scientifically proven to increase happiness. It’s called the Best Possible Self exercise and I think you’ll love it.

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality and Personal Growth

What If We Are Actually Screwed?

January 30, 2020 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

What if we accept that our existence really holds no meaning? What if agree that the planet is really past the point where we can help it? Might that then free up our energy to actually help?

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, Purpose and Meaning, Zen and Meditation

A Parable About Letting Go

December 30, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I’ve been rereading Illusions by Richard Bach and found this parable about letting go helpful: The Master answered and said, “Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. “The current of the river swept silently over them all – young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current […]

Filed Under: General Interest, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality and Personal Growth

What if, instead of women leaning in, men leaned out?

November 14, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

For so long, in the cultural discourse, there has been this idea that, for women to advance as men do, women just need to be more assertive–to act more as men act. The question I have always had is: Why would women want to advance as men do? I mean, of course, women want equal pay and equal […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Career and Work Life, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Family and Friendship

Yes, I’m a quitter

July 10, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

If you want a life of meaning and purpose, you have to be willing to quit what feels meaningless and purposeless. But if you quit things that are meaningless and purposeless, you leave room for things that have meaning and purpose. Do you think it’s wrong to quit? I used to. I stayed in relationships […]

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, Purpose and Meaning

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