Zen and the neuro-diverse brain
Can anyone direct me to a thread where folks who live with ASD/ADHD or both like me have discussed their practice and specifically the challenges associated with how they manage the less amazing aspects. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who has found Zazen to be amazing in helping to regulate or calm them but what about those times where we go from 0-100 in a second without the ability to pause long enough to start sitting?
If there has by some miracle not been a discussion on this I guess I've just started one.
To clarify my relationship with Zazen, it is in its overall infancy. I've been sitting with dedication for about 7 or 8 months and am one of those annoying folk who say "sit Zazen and if that doesn't work sit Zazen" because for the most part this is what I do because it works... for me. My overall Buddhist knowledge though is pretty average at best I'm afraid. Anyhoo...
Gassho
Anna.
Zen and the neuro-diverse brain
David I find the same thing lol. Every morning that I am able, I sit with Onkai and friends at 8:30 . What a great experience with others from our Zendo and I follow right along with the Shikantaza and it takes me a few minutes of saying The Serenity Prayer actually as Neighbr wrote it with emphasis on her and him changing at the beginning knowing that In the next month I will change more than I have since I was 22 the fall of 1974; especially October is a time of change weather spring, fall, in between . Maybe we might think of Shikantaza as change. Thank goodness there is change or we would all be dead. Think of parts of the Heart Sutra while you try to settle into Shikantaza. I love dipping into memory for it has allowed me to live morally in my old age. Yes for you David.
Gassho
sat/ lah
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