Dharma Road
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My Review of Dharma Road
Integrating any discipline into your life is hard enough but I couldn't imagine following a Zen path while putting in the insane long and chaotic hours the author of Dharma Road puts in. Just imagine practicing mindfulness while your brain is being assaulted with the sights and sounds of hurried passengers, manic drivers and a maze of flashing lights telling you to go and then to stop. I'd be screaming this side of insanity within an hour. Mindfulness I'd yell, I'll show you mindfulness as I smashed my hand into the taxi's horn while at the same time yelling out the window at the idiot stalled in front of my cab.
Lucky for us the author of Dharma Road was able to come closer to a Zen practice while driving then I would have.
Zen Ride
does a taxi cab have Buddha nature?
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Haycock fills the book with examples of his everyday life such as: "I follow sports, the local teams. I read crime novels in the airport line, I tape TV shows to watch them when I get off work, go to a movie once in a while." And he continues. " These things are only distractions. There's nothing wrong with them, but they won't help me move down that Eightfold Freeway." In Dharma Road Haycock uses these seemingly mundane everyday thoughts and actions to weave a story about mindfulness and the uphill journey to catch a glimpse of the here and now, to see reality as it really is and not how we manufacture it, only seeing it with our petty colored sunglasses and letting everyone know our view is the right view.
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The best line ever:
Taxi Zen
you'll find the dharma even in a city taxi
“Dharma Road Cafe
leave a thought about the Zen journey”
Meditation
I wonder if you can meditate in a cab while waiting for a fare?
Unfolding of Zen in my life can be glimpsed at Zen Automat - A blockheads attempt to understand Zen but who most certainly doesn't understand Zen. Where's the door out of this place anyways?
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