Cliff Heegel Ph.D.

About that word ‘zen’. Don’t be scared of the word zen. After all, it is just a word.
The word ‘zen’ has a lot of different meanings.  In the context of me and my psychology practice, zen is simply a word that points to Awareness Practice. Although zen originated as a Japanese Buddhist practice, it isn’t [...]

Living a serene life is not difficult for those who are not caught up in attachment or aversion. When attachment  and  aversion are both absent, everything is clear and simple. However, if you get caught in the mind when it starts to make judgments about how things should be different, your serenity is split apart.
If [...]

It is not about getting it right
It is not about being good
It is not about changing yourself
It is not about becoming something you aren’t
It is not about doing the right thing
It is not about other people
It is not even about other people treating you right, or treating you wrong.
It is not about your past
It is not [...]

You are what observes, not what you observe.
If that is true, then… ?
What are you certain of? Anything? Nothing?
It is important.

Cliff’s notes: I put this on my site because I like to refer my clients to it now and then. While the language strikes some as odd, I like it. To me it is very clear. I often laugh out loud when I read it because the author did a great job of capturing the [...]