I uploaded ‘Zen: The Art of Simple Living’ to NotebookLM and made an audio overview deep dive into the book’s key lessons. I am going to make more audio overviews exploring the different themes in the book. I thought I’d post this general deep dive overview that finishes with 10 tips to apply the book’s teachings today.
It reminds me that Zen is something ordinary I can DO right now. It is my tendency to fall into the striving mindset, that I have to work hard to achieve a desired result. But Zen isn’t like that. Even its idea of enlightenment doesn’t come after years of deep meditation. It is something that can be had right now.
Something for me to practice today.
I am going to turn off the music, and JUST work on this WordPress plugin I’m auditing before releasing. My sole job right now is to review and fix this code. I will BE a dev and only a dev right now. I will find the joy in it. There is a Zen to be had in it.