I always said GE used the Zen Buddhist managerial style:

We were asked impossible questions, then beaten with sticks if we couldn't answer properly...

Surveying your (paid off) land on a quiet evening, while musing next to a crackling camp fire, with good friends, and adult beverages.

All the stuff or fun things to do are great but in reality they are only distractions as we hurtle down the dead end path of mortality. He who dies with the most toys (or great memories) is still dead. Can you state that they give you enlightenment or lasting peace?

I guess I really don't care about next level enlightenment, and achieving Zen through meditation. I am NOT concerned with my hurtling towards my mortal end, while I am still on this earth, I am concerned about achieving peace, and contentment.

You are on it.

First become aware you are on it = Zen - good

Then forget you are on it = No Zen - better

Much more worried about meeting small daily goals, than keeping my head in the clouds wondering why !

There is something to be said for that. Mrs WD is so like that. She will strike up conversations with people who are invisible to me. I am so focused on what I'm doing I don't even recognize a stranger let alone take a minute to have a conversation with them. She'll say something to someone in the grocery checkout line and she'll soon have a conversation going with 6 people - and they will all feel better for it. God bless her, I love this woman - she has taught me so much.

I know a few men that adhere to this, they are truly great people and they genuinely believe they are happy. Perception is reality...

Fair enough. Everyone has their own life and they spend it the way they want. I use the word spend because life is a limited resource and unlike money and stuff, at some point you run out and there is no way to get more.

Things to consider:
Am I content with what I have? Do I have peace that will last even if I lose the stuff?

I found that there is a difference between happy and peaceful. If all someone wants is to be entertained then they don't really want peace. For me, it was too tiring to keep the stream of stuff and kicks to avoid the quiet moments in the dark of the night when there was no peace in my heart or mind.

I have been told that "its what you learn after you know it all that counts".

small daily goals is zen

In the strictest, physical sense this is true but surely, like the conservation of mass and conservation of energy (energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can be altered from one form to another), there is the conservation of the soul, or spirit or whatever you wish the call the peculiar aspect that uniquely defines being Human.

The soul carries on and it is our duty to shape it positively in the short time we have here on Earth.

read the Empty Mirror by Jan Willem van de Weteringe.
Dutch dude who not long after WW2 went to become a ZEN monk in Japan.

He tells the story in a very good, humorist way, you'll love it either way.
It's not so much a book about strict budhism or Zen or anything.. But it covers some good ground
I got that suggestion from my Kendo sensei, It puts things in perspective in more ways then one.

https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Mirror-Experiences-Japanese-Monastery/dp/0312207743

If you're unable to find the "path", the words "Gunga Galunga" will bring you total consciousness on your deathbed...that's something, at least.

The trail to enlightenment has been previously discussed. It's clogged with vagrants.

Homeless-Encampments

Big hitter, the Lama.......:D

Is through Jesus .......it's that simple

I'm watching a really cool series on Netflix, The Kindness Diaries. A Brit travels around the world in his side-car 100% dependent on the kindness of strangers. Its really good!

I bought a book, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation. Maybe I'll learn something new :D