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This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of being aware of "how" you're doing things (today and every day).
Comment from Marie: We all probably have "to do" lists, if not on paper or digitally, at least in our head. Yet the important thing is not so much what we do, as the energy or attitude we do it with. Are we doing it with Love or with impatience, stress, and maybe even anger. How we do things is more important than what we do. Read the excerpt from Peter Coyote's book for a broader perspective. (see below)
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
November 13, 2024
The focus for today is:
The question is not "What are we going to do" as much as
"How are we going to do what we must?"
Today's inspiration was written bypeter Coyote:
In the same spirit of helping yourself first with an oxygen mask, we need to consider self-care. We’re awake twelve to eighteen hours a day. There’s a certain amount that is required of us every day if we are going to treat our lives respectfully with the attentiveness they deserve.
Maybe it’s doing the laundry, caring for children, or being available to them. These pressures never disappear and are never done. As soon as you get the laundry washed, dried, folded, and put away, you’re already filling the laundry hamper for the following week.
The question then becomes not What are we going to do as much as How are we going to do what we must?
CONTINUE READING: Read the complete article here.
Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
Balancing Life’s Demands: There’s Only So Much We Can Do
y Peter Coyote.
Read the complete article here.
The focus for today: The question is not "What are we going to do" as much as "How are we going to do what we must?"
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RELATED BOOK: Zen in the Vernacular
Zen in the Vernacular: Things As It Is
by Peter Coyote.
In this engaging guide to Zen Buddhism, award-winning actor, narrator, and Zen Buddhist priest Peter Coyote helps us peer beneath the Japanese gift-wrapping of Zen teachings to reveal the fundamental teachings of the Buddha and show how they can be applied to contemporary daily life.
Revealing the practical usefulness of Buddhist philosophy and practice, Zen in the Vernacular shows how Zen offers a creative problem-solving mechanism and moral guide ideal for the stresses and problems of everyday life.
For more info and/or to order this book, click hereclick here. Also available as an Audiobook and as a Kindle edition.
About the Author
Peter Coyote is an award-winning actor, author, director, screenwriter, and narrator who has worked with some of the world’s most distinguished filmmakers. Recognized for his narration work, he narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century, for which he won an Emmy award, as well as eight Ken Burns documentaries, including The Roosevelts, for which he won a second Emmy. In 2011 he was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest and in 2015 received “transmission” from his teacher, making him an independent Zen teacher. He is the author of several books.
