Anxious? Stop Thinking
A famous Zen koan asks, “Does a dog have a Buddha nature? The answer is Stop! – stop thinking. Brother David Stendl Rast says “stop!” as well. He asks, “Do you want to be happy?” His answer is, ”Be grateful.” He boils it down to “Stop, Look, Go.” Stop what you are doing. Look around for something to be grateful for, then go back to what you were doing.[1] For example, Stop: I stopped writing this blog post just now. Look: I looked out the window and was grateful for