How to Find Your Flow — Even if You’re Stuck in a Rut
When the Ego is in charge — there can be no Flow
Flow is simple to think about; it’s a state of not knowing, not caring. It’s like stepping into a flowing river that you don’t fight, you just allow the motion of the river to take you.
In Zen, we are advised to simply sit. That’s Zen — or better expressed through the word, Zazen.
Taisen Deshimaru, the Zen master and one of the last true Samurais from the Sōtō school, always kept his teaching simple.
Learn to sit Zen, be quiet, pay no attention to your thoughts and achieve a peaceful state of mind. This can happen when we are in action, too.
When Taisen Deshimaru wrote his book, “The Ring of the Way”, on Zen and martial Arts, he combined the ideas of the peacefulness of a Zen life with great effort. It is a book about action, about how to live with a Zen spirit.
The book helps us to approach life with a calm spirit and a body fit for action.
A peaceful mind is a state of flow. If we attempt to control “flow” we are not in flow.
Being in control, is the ego at work.
The ego gets us into trouble.
