Over centuries of observation, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) astutely associates a basic emotion to each of five elements and five energetic seasons. The emotion of fear corresponds to TCM’s energetic Winter and Water element. The quieter more introspective aspect of Winter (November 8 to January 17) can help you balance this emotion if you tap into its gifts.
Water Can Be Frightening But Balances Fear with Life
How interesting that water can be a raging frightful destructive torrent, flood or tidal wave. It can literally tear things apart, wear down rocks and take life away.
On the other hand, water is essential to life.
Feng shui utilizes water as a calming zen type element. Fountains and water walls bring the sound of gently trickling water to our senses to pacify and soothe us.
When a person suddenly falls ill or becomes injured, if we can, we give the person a drink of water to revive.
When we want to relax and let go, we take a bath or a nice long shower.
Water has the potential to destroy and also to take us to a place we call zen.
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Zen is a method of rediscovering the experience of being alive… The aim of Zen is to bring about a transformation of consciousness, and to awaken us from the dream world of our endless thoughts so that we experience life as it is in the present moment. —Mark Watts, What Is Zen?
Zen is not a religion. It isn’t centered on deity.
… Zen is a practice based entirely upon a certain kind of personal experience, and no complete idea of its truths can be given in words… it is a way of liberation that centers around the things that are basic to all mysticism: awakening to the unity or oneness of life, and the inward–as opposed to outward–existence of God… the word God can be misleading because … the idea of a deity in the Western religious sense is foreign to Zen. —Alan Watts, What Is Zen?
We’ve all experienced zen—those times we lapse into the zone.
Everything just clicks without much effort at all.
In those moments, we feel confident and masterful. We both know and feel we can do no wrong. Everything just falls into place and we feel serene.
Zen is in those moments an Olympic ice skater performs flawlessly, when an artist effortlessly paints a masterpiece and when we sit before a sunset spellbound and motionless.
It can occur when we give absolute attention and concentration to the most mundane aspects of everyday life: sweeping, washing dishes, writing a book, or practicing yoga.
In zen, nothing is separate from us. Your absolute attention and concentration on the mundane as well as the auspicious helps you realize all is one. Consciously or unconsciously, we lapse into zen.
Zen is peace at last—the opposite of fear.
You have peace at last when you embrace and understand that you’re one even with all the things you don’t enjoy or prefer in this world. You have peace at last when you begin to notice you’re one with the flora and fauna, the seen and the unseen.
In the state of zen, you find no problem in the world to solve. You have no enemy to conquer because all of us are all of it. Life is a flowing process in which the mind and consciousness are intertwined. They exist inside each other.
… there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy–and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to ‘feel it in your bones.’ –Alan Watts, What Is Zen?
Open to the idea of zen. Intend it in your life.
You may soon be amazed to find yourself lapsing into zen moments. There you find a real reprieve from the chaos of the world.
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If you’re fearful and agitated you’ll probably notice a shift to a state of zenitude.
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Sources:
Watts, Alan. What Is Zen? New World Library, 2000.
Hamill, Sam, and Jerome P. Seaton. The Poetry of Zen. Shambhala, 2007.
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