How to Bring Zen Into Everyday Life with Shozan Jack Haubner
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Shozan Jack Haubner is the pen name of a Zen monk whose essays have appeared in The Sun, Tricycle, Buddha, Dharma, and The New York Times, as well as in the best Buddhist Writing series. Jack is the winner of a 2012 Pushcart prize and is the author of Zen Confidential Confessions of a Wayward Monk and Single White Monk. He is also the host of the YouTube channel Zen Confidential.
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Shozan Jack Haubner and I Discuss How to Bring Zen Into Everyday Life and …
- His transition from monastic life to real world life
- Realizing that his growth has taken a different path after leaving the monastery
- Trusting in life, even when it’s really challenging
- The differences between the personal and intimate
- Noticing the moments of waking up that happen in daily life
- The challenges he experienced when in a leadership role
- His relationship with his dad
- Understanding the meanings of self and no self
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| 0:00.0 | You don't have to slip into the roles that are waiting for you when you walk through the door at night. |
| 0:05.7 | You don't go see your spouse or when you walk through your childhood home and you go see your father. |
| 0:10.2 | Like, it's a choice. You don't have to get into those roles. |
| 0:20.9 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:23.0 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. |
| 0:27.6 | Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:33.2 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:37.4 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:42.1 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:45.0 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:48.4 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:50.4 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:52.0 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:56.1 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. |
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