Zen Sun

13/06/2020

My practice goes up and down
Like the ocean tides
Rhythmically holding me already for some time

It is always with me
I ride the waves naturally

Taking it as it comes
No pressure to achieve anything

And still I am committed to my gentle zen practice

7 years of relationship with yoga

Exciting begginings
very motivated & physically challenging asana practice

Slowing down, grounding in my flow
Experiencing different teachers in zen tradition

Starting my meditation practice
Going deeper and deeper into buddhism and zen teachings

Diving into teacher training for 2 years

Becoming buddhist

Experiencing zen meditation retreats and impressive breaktroughts

Letting go my old life for Y O G A only!

Living in yoga school in Mexico at the Pacific ocean

Becoming Miss Nobody

Asanas 21days 2xper day
Silent retreats for 10 days
Every month
4 months

Meanwhile sweeping the floor after sisters and brothers backpackers yogis and meditators from all over the world

Starting qigong practice in Guatemala in the Tao temple

Forgetting everything

Stillness and movement
Breath
Awareness
D i s s o l v e d

Taking break from all of it to find myself

Last 2 years
Journeying with plant medicines, dancing ecstaticly more than practising asanas

Finding yoga in everything
Meditating every day
Blessing my every meal

Understanding better my own nature

And than!
Getting on the Ta***ic ride

Practice is not so easy when you open it up for others
New challenges
The beautiful ones
The hard ones

Let's grow together!
Alone is good
Together is messier
but more exciting

Ta***ic path is ticket for a spiritual express ride!

Rapidly evolving trough the shadows and boundaries and human mirrors on every step.

Becoming human more than ever and loving my human experience!

Dancing on festivals, having fun, enjoying life!

Everything is sacred!

Ta**ra, mantra, cacaosito la medicina..and repeat it all..

Coming back to the my heart ♡

Drinking cacaosito in the beach at Atlantic coast..

In front of my house
Right here, in Brasil
In my dreamplace for a long time

Radiating gentle love
Embracing pathless path
Embracing myself as my own guide

Giving thanks to all traditions
And minding my own businesses and my own life

Finding joy
Beneath it all

Coming back to serve to us all
Sharing and caring from my very personal embodied experience

Respecting my own natural flow

Striving and letting go
Like the ocean tides

Up and down up and down
Up and down up and down

Respecting the day and the night
Moon cycles and
The cosmic dance between Earth and Sun

Seeing trough the challenges in life that are always pushing me to grow into new self

Breathing and smiling
Smiling and breathing

Satisfied and content
Ofcourse, not always!

But thats the juice of it all

Like surfing
Standing and falling
Or meditation
In and out
Perfecty there and than being aggitated
And than coming back to meditation.

Breathe in
and
Breath out

Fall and come back to
your surf board
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

In love with the Ocean and
with so much loving kindness
for you my friend

Sharing my heart and how I feel right now.
Thank you for reading and stay well.

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Photo by Lea Forgo, Mexico, 2018

**ra

08/11/2019

LOKAH SAMASTA SUKHINO BHAVANTU

Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu (translated as ”may all beings be happy and free”), a Sanskrit

02/10/2019

02/09/2019

Beloved teacher Thich Nhath Hanh and his always wise words ♡

It involves a lot more than meditating.

23/07/2019

Give Thanks!

Look in the mirror when you are brushing your teeth, and think about something you...

23/07/2019

Give Thanks!

Look in the mirror when you are brushing your teeth, and think about something you...

13/07/2019

“The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows. There is nothing extraordinary or mysterious about Zen. I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of the desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring wood — in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No wordy discussion is necessary, nor any explanation..” ~ D.T. Suzuki

Zen & the Art of Living Deeply
https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/zen-the-art-of-living-deeply/

25/06/2019

In meditation
Even unwanted is wanted
Even resistance is sacred

Well,
just simply do it

“BUT I HATE MEDITATION!”

In meditation, your only ‘job’ is to be curious about what arises.
Don’t try to get rid of any aspect of your experience.
Your crazy thoughts – just watch them.
Uncomfortable feelings – just breathe with them.
Cry with them. Laugh with them.
The part of you that hates meditation – be interested in it, too!
The child in you who can’t sit still.
Who wants to be somewhere else.
Who feels ashamed or guilty for thinking ‘unspiritual’ thoughts or feeling ‘negative’ feelings and impulses.
Who feels the burning desire to run away and do something else.
Welcome him with open arms.
Breathe him into love and breathe love into him.

In meditation, even the unwanted is wanted; even your resistance is sacred!

- Jeff Foster

02/05/2019

“Dogen Zen-ji said, ‘To know yourself is to forget yourself.’ We might think that knowing ourselves is a very ego-centered thing, but by beginning to look so clearly and so honestly at ourselves—at our emotions, at our thoughts, at who we really are—we begin to dissolve the walls that separate us from others. Somehow all of these walls, these ways of feeling separate from everything else and everyone else, are made up of opinions. They are made up of dogma; they are made of prejudice. These walls come from our fear of knowing parts of ourselves...
“So to know yourself is to forget yourself. This is to say that when we make friends with ourselves we no longer have to be so self-involved. It’s a curious twist: making friends with ourselves is a way of not being so self-involved anymore.
Then Dogen Zen-ji goes on to say, ‘To forget yourself is to become enlightened by all things.’ When we are not so self-involved, we begin to realize that the world is speaking to us all of the time. Every plant, every tree, every animal, every person, every car, every airplane is speaking to us, teaching us, awakening us. It’s a wonderful world, but we often miss it.”

Each Friday, we share three topical longreads in our Weekend Reader newsletter. This week, LionsRoar.com editor Sam Littlefair reflects on the Buddhist themes in The Matrix, 20 years after the film's release.

16/04/2019

°•Zen Yoga weekly schedule for April•°

Tuesdays and Fridays 7.30am
Wednesdays 4pm

"may all beings be happy and free"

04/04/2019

02/01/2019

For the first three days of the new year, Thay encourages us to practice metta meditation. On the first day we practice for ourselves. On the second, we practice for a person we love. On the third day, we practice for a person or institution that makes us suffer.
May I/ you/ all beings be peaceful and light in body and in mind.
May I be safe and free from accidents.
May I be free from anger, unwholesome states of mind, fear and worries.
May I know how to look at myself with the eyes of
understanding and compassion.
May I be able to recognize and touch the seeds of joy and happiness in myself.
May I learn how to nourish myself with joy each day.
May I be able to live fresh, solid and free.
May I not fall into the state of indifference or be caught in
the extremes of attachment or aversion.
Jenny Sun

December 31, 2009. This 75-minute dharma talk in English given by Thich Nhat Hanh in Upper Hamlet, Plum Village. Also streamed live to Thailand and received at the monasteries at Deer Park and Blue Cliff. Thich Nhat Hanh encourages us to practice metta mediation in the first three days of the new ye...