Gently Behind Zen

A famous Zen story tells of a Japanese professor in the late 1800's who went to visit master Nan-in. First, the old master served tea. He filled his guest's cup to the brim-and then kept on pouring. The tea spilled over the sides of the cup, until the astonished professor could no longer hold his polite silence. "Stop!" he cried. "No more will go in!" Nan-in then quietly replied, "Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

It used to be interpreted in a way, that if our minds are clogged with concepts, with the debris of past experiences and worries about the future, how can we live freshly or fully, at work or at play?- Well, if that would be only the mind in question, we would have an easy job to do and any meditation would help to clear our that stuff within a few hours. Yes, life would be that easy, and Zen as well.

However emotions are our companions in this game and that means, as each emotion represents thousands of thoughts stored within various layers of our being (a small part of them is located in our head, sure ...), we could easily spend centuries cleaning out the stuff by pure meditations or other mind balancing techniques. From other perspective, it is a talk of contemporary man with his woman, talk of the thought with the emotion - I mean talk of one thought with thousand of thoughts and vice versa - responding to thousand of questions by one answer ... It can hardly work. Died trying.

As Heidegger put it, "Anxiety is there. It is only sleeping. Its breath quivers perpetually through man's being." Anxiety, loneliness, fears, feelings of rejections, ... - as a humans, we are one of most endowed with this treasure and rightly so, how could we otherwise become humans?

Pulse Essences do clean emotions that we can not handle and that are otherwise stored in our body, stored for years and decades. They also improve mood and do so fast. Nothing more and nothing less. I am saying this, because most of us tend to jump right into advanced lessons, complex laboratory work, interesting projects without noticing that treasure already collected and binding us down.