Living a graceful life that has meaning and happiness is an art anyone can master. Essentially, that is what Zen is about: a state free of conditioning so that the mind can rest and rejoice, so it may go with the flow of life without the anxiety to always get somewhere. Life is here. Now. Though it is easier said than done, it is possible. This is awakening in a nutshell: to have a graceful response to everything life throws at you without losing your sense of serenity and inner calm. Life and our emotions needn’t be as serious an affair as we have made it out to be. To be enlightened is to
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