50 Best Blogs for Zen-Like Living

Whether you are a Zen Buddhist or just want to lead a Zen life, these 50 spiritual and simplifying blogs and community web sites will point you down the path of enlightenment.

Explore the first sub-section to learn how to have a happy, fulfilled life through Zen-inspired lessons and mantras.

The second sub-section is dedicated to those who are seeking a more spiritual side of Zen like Zen Buddhism. Many of these blogs feature meditations and insight on the path to Enlightenment.

Learn to Live Peacefully Blogs

1. zenhabits - This no-frills site focuses on ways of slowing down and enjoying life to its fullest.
2. KOSMIC Life - This site is all about Zen living through making your world greener. It focuses on greenifying every aspect of your life, and making your entire existence in greater accord with the earth.
3. OnSimplicity.net - This site is all about simplifying your life, with wisdom on reducing luxuries, resetting your life, and more.
4. Goodlife Zen - Mary Jaksch, a Zen master, created this community site to encourage inspiration and peacefulness among the friends in the Zen forum.
5. Zen, Project Management, and Life - This site focuses on applying the Zen lessons you’ve learned to everyday life, and how to bring a little more serenity to the world of project management.
6. Zen College Life - Like the name says, this site is all about simplifying your college life. This includes meditations on self-experience, ideal summer activities, school survival, and more.
7. The Zen In You - This site focuses on balancing your energy, examining your words, finding contentment, and more.
8. The Art of Zhen - This amusing blog waxes philosophic on the dangers of black tea, finding your inner source, and the necessity of self-amusement.
9. ZenMom - Offering a spiritual perspective from a mom’s POV, this site offers tips on living for the moment, celebrating what’s really important, and the occasional bit of politics.
10. Zen Coffee - This site revels in chaotic oppositions, such as the calming effects of caffeinated coffee. It focuses on book reviews, personal inspiration, and the ability to will a better you.
11. Yogadiva’s Divine Life - This site focuses on channeling your creativity into a path of joy and redemption. In addition to great advice in every update, you can join the blogger in monthly challenges.
12. The Daily Gratitude Blog - This site challenges you to be grateful for all things that happen in your life, great or small.
13. SpiritAlive - This blog tackles the productivity side of fun, steps to feeling better, getting what you want, and more.
14. LLiu’s Community Zen Master Blog - This no-frills forum meditates on collective action, collaboration, social media, and more.
15. Zen and the Art of Peacekeeping - This world-traveling blogger ruminates on worldwide peace, clarity, and easy ways to change the world.
16. Consumer Trends News Green Zen - Like the name says, this blog is all about making greener lives and a greener world, from individuals to corporations.
17. EnlightenYourDay.com - This unique site waxes philosophic on originality, poetry, and other uplifting topics.
18. Treeleaf Zen - This site offers live meditations, ample videos, and ways of taking action for a better world.
19. The 99th Monkey - The 99th Monkey humorously looks into the beauty of failing to attain enlightenment, and what we can learn from our failures.
20. Hardcore Zen - This humorous blogger dishes on solipsism, achieving focus, gay marriage, and much more to achieve perfect zen living.
21. The Zen-Images Ikebana Blog - Through amazing art, this blog offers “a quiet space where you can contemplate the beauty of nature as sculpted through artistic expression.”
22. Zen Under the Skin - This down-to-earth blog tackles all things Dharma, and offers awesome anecdotes of family life falling a little short of Zen.
23. Conflict Zen - This site is all about helping you “untangle disagreements” and lead a happier, conflict-free life.
24. EnlightenYurDay - If you’re sick of trying to get enlightenment to follow you around all day, you could always follow enlightenment around…on Twitter, of course. These tweets offer words of wisdom from some of the greatest thinkers throughout history.
25. The Buddhist Blog - This Buddhist draws from a variety of inspirations in order to meditate on science, beauty, and freedom.
26. Anitva - A blogger ponders Zen and employment, problem solutions, and other peaceful musings.
27. Enlightened Living - This site offers wisdom for your “everyday life,” tackling loneliness, addiction, the recession, and more.
28. The Meditative Life - This psychology blog offers “practical instruction on how to tap into your mind and heart, plus inspiration from great meditation teachers.”
29. Care of the Soul - This site does a little bit of everything, offering wisdom on sexual anxiety, world politics, and the importance of lightening up.
Sprirtual Zen Blogs
30. Progressive Buddhism - As the name implies, this site is all about examining the wisdom of ancient Buddhism through the lens of the post-modern 21st century. It includes meditations on the birth of death, the origins of happiness, and many other weighty topics.
31. Susan Smith Thompson’s Blog - This site comments greatly on the state of politics and Reiki care, and offers simple keys for spiritual wisdom.
32. Awake is Good - If you desire to “live in an awakened manner,” this site offers tips on the Zen of writing, meditation, and the celebration of light, both external and internal.
33. I Choose Bliss - This site offers spiritual to-do lists, meditation rituals, and healing poetry.
34. One Soul’s Journey - This site helps you get in touch with your chakra, offers bits of Tao wisdom, and helps you get over asking that worst of questions: “why?”
35. Go beyond words: Wisdom Publications’ Buddhist Blog - This great Buddhist site offers book reviews, meditations, and tips for daily spiritual growth.
36. Upaya Institute and Zen Center - This site offers deep thoughts on ethics, compassion, and spirituality.
37. Cheerio Road: The Blog of Author Karen Maezen Miller - This whimsical site analyzes spiritual art, the relationship between technology and spirit, and the effects of work on our souls.
38. One City: A Buddhist Blog for Everyone - This Buddhist blog deals with roadblocks on the path to nirvana, as well as poetry, art, and other spirit-enhancing cultural items.
39. ValleyZen - This site delves into technology and spirituality, and offers healthy doses of humor and pictures.
40. The Zen Community - This blogger meditates on “forbidden” literature, the dynamics of creation, and what religion tells us about being a better person.
41. Ten Zen Blog - This Buddhist blog features interviews, links to other blogs, and meditations on the origin of thought.
42. Open Buddha - This site of “open source Buddhism” features videos and images designed to make you laugh and make you ponder in equal proportion.
43. Zen and Buddhist Resources - This site brings you words of wisdom to achieve daily Zen, from simple koans to deep meditations.
44. Dharma-Zen Blog - This site meditates on Chinese medicine, Zen workshops, and martial arts.
45. Zen Filter - Offering something for everyone, this site explores “Zen Buddhist websites, news, and discussion.”
46. Dark Zen - This no-frills site has book reviews, Zen editorials, and thoughts on modern meditation.
47. Ten Zen Questions - This is another great, simple site that helps you get into Zen, be mindful of the world around you, and develops your spirit.
48. Zen Buddhism Dogen and the Shobogenzo - This site ponders the nature of Zen teachings, life after enlightenment, and you can discover The Way to spiritual wholeness.
49. EnlightenNext Magazine - These editorials explore enlightenment in politics, ecology, and the media.
50. Sweep the dust, Push the dirt - This down-and-dirty site explores “Buddhism without bull#@#@,” offering thoughts on what enlightenment means in the 21st century.

Ahh. Reading those blogs was nearly as relaxing as a massage. Almost. Are you feeling mindful and enlightened yet?

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