Knowing What is Under our True Feet

Kyakka Shōko (脚下照顧).... Paying close attention and taking care of what's beneath of our feet, instead of what's in our head... in my direct experience is a thousand times more useful than mindfulness. The true universe isn't in my thoughts... it's the reality of not just "Be here now..." But KNOWING here and now.

The universe of thinking mind's trials and tribulations? What did Mark Twain once say?

Recovery and Zen re-attention me that the problem isn't that the mind produces thoughts. The problem is that attention becomes hooked by them. The Way of Kyakka Shōko is a reminder to stop wandering. Instead of being pulled into stories about yesterday, tomorrow, or someone else's life. As a practice we could return attention to what's under our 'instep…' the only place where the moment is actually unfolding.

Attendfulness is simply taking responsibility for where attention Ising Being. Every return is a return to reality. Every return is a step away from delusion. Every return is both the practice of Zen and the practice of recovery... AKA healing our relationship with Reality... which is in truth a place we never left, though it can think that way.

一We Are the Attention Itself