Simply Being Zen

Take a quiet moment, with or without coffee, to go within and enjoy a peaceful moment all to yourself.

Simply Be Zen.

Zen Coffee Breather

Hold your steaming mug of coffee in both hands and deeply breathe in the aroma of coffee. Feel the essence of the aroma in your mind. Breathe out the essence of your coffee.

Deeply breathe in the ethereal essence of you. Feel your Zen nature within you. Breathe out the ethereal essence of your spirit, allowing it to permeate everything around you and within you.

There's No Time Like the Present

I've always liked the phrase, "There's no time like the present." It reminds me that in every moment, we have a new beginning, and that the present moment is always a gift. 

We always have an ever-present choice to tune into our spiritual essence, to tune into our Zen nature, to take the present moment to mindfully meditate. 

I like that I can take any moment I wish and turn it into a Zen coffee moment.

I wish for you many "no time like the present" moments to be present -- with or without coffee.

Zen Coffee is Here

Zen Coffee has arrived in the present. The birth of a book is always a very special thing to me, not just because I wrote it, but because part of me — part of my heart and soul — is in the pages. 

I promised I would reveal the answer to the koan I posted a while back when the book was published.

The paradox of meditating by coffee is that mindfully meditating is not separate from any of your experiences; it is a basic, integral part of everything in your life and can be incorporated into every thought, feeling, and experience you have, much in the same manner that caffeine and calm — which are seeming opposites — poured into the same coffee cup are a perfect blend of meditation and mindfulness.