Thursday, January 26, 2012

5 Great Online Zen Tools

I do what I can here at The Daily Zen.  I research and write, because that's what I know how to do best.  Some people are really skilled at building web pages and coding apps.  Today I want to share a few of these creations with you, because they've helped me.  These sites are well-crafted and well-designed, so they're also a lot of fun.  Enjoy...
  
ZenTogether social meditation tool

sleepyti.me bedtime calculator.  This calculates when you should go to bed/wake up if you want to feel refreshed.  If we wake up in the middle of a REM cycle, which we usually do, we feel groggy.  Waking up between cycles helps us avoid the grog, and this helps you do that.

DailyZen --  the other daily zen!  This site has daily passages and poems from ancient Zen teachers.  It also has some great tools, like a meditation room similar to ZenTogether.  Lots of cool gifts/products in the online shop.

ZEN- a creative and fun flash presentation about Zen.  Must-see.

Alan Watts portal - Fantastic collection of videos, speeches, writings, etc.  Watts has heavily influenced my understanding of Zen and continues to inspire what I write for you here.

I know you're all busy and might not have the time to check all these out, so I'll leave it at that.  I continue to find great resources like these via StumbleUpon, so I'll post more in the future.  If you have any links of your own, tweet them via @dailyzen and I'll collect for the next list.