Explore the World's Best Ideas
Join today and uncover 100+ curated journeys from 50+ topics. Unlock access to our mobile app with extensive features.
Being Zen is all about learning to live with ambiguity and paradoxes. Life is too complex to be understood using reason. The truth lies beyond words. But ...
What if we didn’t need an explanation for everything?
Zen Kōans, riddles that makes no sense, serve to help achieve a central tenet of Buddhism: letting go of binary thinking. Instead of focusing on right and wrong or black and white, kōans helped monks avoid clinging to answers or outcomes—because they lack them.
44
349 reads
Desire creates pain in our lives.
But living a life void of desire is equally, if not more, painful.
44
447 reads
The more intensely you desire something, the harder it seems to attain.
If you don’t desire something with enough intensity, you never do what's required to attain it.
44
390 reads
We desire comfort, security, and safety.
But nothing we desire can be obtained without risk.
45
389 reads
What we want changes over time.
But our deepest desires - to be loved, to be validated - never change.
45
347 reads
Life-long learner. Passionate about leadership, entrepreneurship, philosophy, Buddhism & SF. Founder @deepstash.
Life does not makes sense. Why do you even try?
“
More like this
4 ideas
What Is the True Meaning of Zen? - Always Well Within
alwayswellwithin.com
4 ideas
The Power of Silence
Graham Turner
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates