Although confidence wasn't the word I was searching for earlier. I've been practicing putting on eye makeup so I can look like a newscaster during my interviews and live feeds on ustream. The liquid eyeliner is the hardest part, because you have to apply it in a single, even stroke. It made me think of how Zen is like applying liquid eyeliner. You just do it. Zen is being in the present moment without fear or anger. Just do it! So you apply the liquid eyeliner without thinking good or bad, it is what it is.
And the best teaching on this I have ever received came from the woman who worked at the l'ancome counter at Dillard's - she was the person who finally showed me how to put on makeup in colors that suit me, but the big teaching was when she was telling me that the eyeliner had to be applied in one steady stroke. "And," she continued, "if you mess up you can always do it over again." No anger or frustration. Just do it, and if you mess up, do it again.
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