Henry’s Messages – Page 4 – Mountain Cloud Zen Center

Message from Henry: Trust

There are many ways practice can be categorized… Generative versus receptive practice – meaning, practice that creates certain experiences, versus practice that explores things as they are. Focused attention versus

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New Year’s Message from Henry: Space Out

Here is a suggestion for a New Year’s resolution… Space out. Veg out. The stern instruction on this subject is: do space out. Do veg out. At least once every

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Message from Henry: What’s the Point?

If a line is the shortest distance between two points, awakening is the shortest distance between all points. Awakening makes all points one. It makes all things one. How can

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Message from Henry: The Numinous Ordinary

In awakening Zen style, it seems there must be some sense of being plugged into the main electricity supply. Suddenly there’s a much larger reality, of immense power and scope,

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Message from Henry: Fully Human

Some say we’re human so we can awaken. But what if that’s only phase one? Phase two would be: we awaken so we can be human. This could be the

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Message from Henry: At Rest

I read somewhere that Einstein once said that the “happiest thought in the universe” was that bodies moving through space experience themselves as being at rest. Take us. We’re traveling

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Message from Henry: In the Dust

I was up on the gravel of the Medicine Wheel where we were camping in the Santa Monica Mountains. The wheel was an area with four radii of colored rocks.

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Message from Henry: Sitting in an English Village in Late Summer

The village is settled deep in its ancient self: probably here since late Neolithic times. Three things emerge into awareness. First, pigeons cooing, their soft fluting in mid morning. In a way

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Message from Henry: Flow

There seem to be different flavors of flow. There’s being thoroughly engrossed in a task to the point that self-consciousness of doing the task disappears. You are taken up by

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Message from Henry: Samu

Any time you’re unsure what to do… do some samu. Tend your immediate environment. Find something – anything – perhaps the smaller the better, that could use your attention.

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Message from Henry: Zendo Magic

A zendo is a space that makes things beautiful. For example, this morning – a set of small lozenges of sunlight pattern themselves across the wall and floor, where the

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Message from Henry: Loving Things

Did you have a particular pair of jeans or cords as a kid that you loved? That you hated to be parted from? Or a shirt, a jacket, a T

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Message from Henry: Mindfulness

…a taste of our mindfulness developing and expanding. Mindfulness… it can be like creating a warm loving home inside yourself. Whenever an uncomfortable feeling comes up, an edge of fear,

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Message from Henry: Dual and Non-Dual

We’re not really free until we are no longer attached to the non-dual, as opposed to the dual. To be free, relaxed, responsive, attentive, and full of love for this

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