Uncle Bucky’s Dharma Rules

“All activities are content ~ All content is equal ~ All content is empty”

“Don’t lose your beginners mind”

“Be all in! Stay on Point!”

“Keep all tasks current – Stay on the current task!”

 

Morning Dharma Schedule

#1 – Drink water!

#2 – 10 minutes exercise every morning before zazen!

#3 – A.M. – Basic stretching

• Leg Stretch
• Forward bends

#4 – A.M. – Sitting & Quiet Time

• Zazen – Yes!
• Chanting – As time permits
• Kinhin – If Time Permits
• Bead Moment Counting – If Time Permits

Daytime Dharma

#1 – Yoga time – lunch rest time

• Remember, Yoga stretches the inertia kinks out!

#2 – Exercise –  afternoon or evening

• 15 minutes bike

OR

• 30 minutes walking

 

All Day Long Dharma

#1 – Drink water!

• Keep Hydrated! A dry brain is an unhappy brain, and it blames it all on you!

#2 – Get enough rest!

• If you don’t get enough rest, you are not going to function properly.

 

Tasks Dharma

#1 – Keep Tasks Current

• Keep every task current – Are you doing the current task in your hands?
• Are you all in? Are you “on point”?
• Is there any separation between this moments mind, and the task at hand? There shouldn’t be!
• Procrastination is a face of Inertia (You are stuck!)
• Keep the mind current.

#2 – BE the task at hand.

Remember the Dharma!

• Here and Now
• No rating system – all activities are empty.
• Equanimity may be even better – this positively disallows a rating, opinion, and therefore an emotional reaction to that thing… if everything is equal, there is nothing to like or dislike…. everything is just equal or just as it is.
• Body and mind in the same place, in NOW.
• Attention, attention, attention.
• Continuity