About zenfant

Hi, I’m Shane, a 43 year old gay man in Texas.  I’ve been a spiritual vagabond since I was 13.  Recently (since 2007) I found Zen and Buddhism and Dharma.  In fact, quite by chance, reading my first book on Buddhist practice, I was shocked to find that a philosophy and way of being that had organically grown inside me had been written down over the past 2600 years.  While striving to keep a regular practice of zazen meditation, I found that the teachings and precepts of Zen naturally became stronger in my daily life.

I am by no means perfect in any of this practice (not even close), and what has come to me over and over again is a phrase that drove me to create this blog:  ‘mindfulness is the muscle, meditation is the gym’.  It is just a starting place as it came out of a pressing question I have and sit with every day… How do I take these teachings and practices to where the rubber meets the road?  How do I practice Dharma when I’m stuck in a personal pot hole or when I’m jostled about in life’s gyrations?

This blog is born out of daily exploration of these questions and the answer is what I have come to call Dirty Dharma…the Dharma I can count on when life goes sideways, or my affectionate term…’Dharma covered in shit’.

I take the practice of Zen seriously, but my life is powered by a dry and irreverent sense of humor, peppered with profanity…that’s just fair warning for my posts.

Oh…why the name zenfant…it’s because I practice Zen and Zen makes me perpetually feel like a baby learning how to live again…a zen infant=zenfant

you can contact me at freedomrocks1969@gmail.com.