{"id":93,"date":"2023-03-27T08:02:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zenandrecovery\/?p=93"},"modified":"2023-03-27T08:12:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:12:04","slug":"zen-and-recovery-the-zombie-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zenandrecovery\/2023\/03\/zen-and-recovery-the-zombie-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen and Recovery: The Zombie Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Why have there been so many apocalyptic Zombie movies and TV shows over the last several years?<\/p>\n
I think I have an idea.<\/p>\n
Photo by Simon Wijers<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
When I used to teach beginning meditation in a yoga studio near me, I would ask this same question. As a set up. To show how Zen meditation might be useful to people in ways other than lowering blood pressure or stress reduction. I took the position that the reason there are so many new Zombie movies\/TV shows appearing is because our great fear in contemporary times is to become the walking dead. Sleepwalkers in our lives.<\/p>\n
Borrowing from Carl Jung I took the position that this zombie phenomena were a result of our collective unconscious (disclaimer: I\u2019m not a Jungian). And that our contemporary collective unconscious is producing a new archetype, the sleepwalker. That with the continued bombardment of tools of distraction, from smart phones to designer drugs, a new universal fear has been born. That we will be ultimately taken over by the virus (the distractions), destined to groan and slobber our way through life, as the living dead.<\/p>\n
In the Zen Recovery Sangha, I facilitate for the Empty Moon Zen Collective<\/a>, we are going through the Dhammapada. The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha and one of the most widely read and best-known Buddhist<\/a> scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon. Recently we read chapter two titled Appamada, which is often translated as Vigilance, Watchfulness, or Wakefulness<\/em>. In this chapter you can find the antidote to becoming the walking dead. It opens with how we can become \u201cdeathless.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vigilance is the path of the deathless;<\/em><\/p>\n
Negligence the path to death.<\/em><\/p>\n
The vigilant do not die;<\/em><\/p>\n
The negligent are as if already dead.<\/em><\/p>\n
(Fronsdal & Kornfield, 2008).<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t give yourself to negligence,<\/em><\/p>\n
Don\u2019t devote yourself to sensual pleasure.<\/em><\/p>\n
Vigilant and absorbed in meditation<\/em><\/p>\n
One attains abundant happiness.<\/em><\/p>\n
(Fronsdal & Kornfield, 2008).<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
Through effort, vigilance,<\/em><\/p>\n
Restraint, and self-control,<\/em><\/p>\n
The wise person can become an island<\/em><\/p>\n
No flood will overwhelm.<\/em><\/p>\n
(Fronsdal & Kornfield, 2008).<\/p>\n
Please join me for the Empty Moon Zen Recovery Sangha<\/a> on Monday nights at 7pm<\/em><\/p>\n
None of this was written by AI<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why have there been so many apocalyptic Zombie movies and TV shows over the last several years? I think I have an idea. Photo by Simon Wijers on Unsplash When I used to teach beginning meditation in a yoga studio near me, I would ask this same question. As a set up. 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