Learn To Reach Your Zen With Consulting & Life Coaching
Zen4Life Coaching & Consulting is focused on getting results for our clients. Whether it's a personal or professional engagement, our practice will work with you to identify and clear the obstacles and their origins to help clear a path to the outcomes you seek.
We are a leading life-management consulting firm established on the belief that the true understanding and acceptance of one’s self is at the heart of “wellbeing.” This principle applies for individuals as well as organizations. Our coaching engagements help to translate Zen principles around mindfulness into clarifying and simplifying strategies for companies and individuals who have arrived at an inflection point.
About Us
Zen4Life Coaching & Consulting’s services are utilized by individuals, teams, and organizations. What each of the constituencies has in common is the desire to restore flow in their personal and/or professional situation. They are stuck and want to be unstuck.
Mental Wellbeing
Spiritual Wellbeing
Emotional Wellbeing
Physical Wellbeing
What Is Zen?
Zen is very simple. At its core, it asks - "Who are you?" It is not a religious practice. Rather, it is the practice of being wholly present and aware of the nature of all beings. In today's world, people often look outside of themselves for happiness. The application of zen practice involves looking inward to understand the true nature of one's self.
Central and indispensable to Zen is daily Zazen or meditation practice. Zazen is a Japanese term consisting of two characters: za, "to sit (cross-legged)," and zen, from the Sanskrit dhyana, meaning at once concentration, dynamic stillness, and contemplation. The means toward the realization of one's original nature as well as the realization itself, Zazen is both something one does - sitting cross-legged, with proper posture and correct breathing - and something one essentially is. To emphasize one aspect at the expense of the other is to misunderstand this subtle and profound practice.
Meditation melts away the mind-forged spaces that distance man from his true self. In meditation, there is no reality outside what exists here and now. While sorrow and joy, anxiety and distress cannot be avoided, by not clinging to them we find ourselves free of them, no longer pulled this way and that. With this self-mastery comes composure and tranquility of mind.
In ordinary experience, being and doing are separated: what one does is cut off from what one is, and conversely. Such separation leads inevitably to the condition of self-alienation. Particularly in this century, this condition has become acute. With time and sincere effort in Zazen practice, mind and body, inside and outside, self and other are experienced as one. This condition of effortless concentration enables the deepest connection with all beings, and ultimately a contentment with self.
What Is Beginner’s Mind?
Beginner's mind is Zen practice in action. It is the mind that is clear of preconceptions and expectations, judgements and prejudices.
To have beginner's mind is to allow yourself to be present to explore and observe and see "things as-they-are."
How much more fully could you experience life with a beginner's mind? What might you learn about yourself?
