Exams and Entrance Tests

"What if my mind goes blank on the day?" "What if all those months of studying come to nothing?" When an exam or entrance test is getting close, it's easy to start living inside results that haven't happened yet: lying awake, replaying worst cases, carrying the weight of other people's hopes as well as your own. If that's where you are right now, it makes sense. Worry like this usually means you care a great deal. Zen offers a simple way of looking at it. The outcome sits somewhere in the future, out of reach. But the page in front of you, the question you're working on, the breath you're taking right now are all here, and you can meet them one at a time. Zen also notices that nothing stays the same, and that includes this tension. It rises, it shifts, and in time it passes. On this page, you'll find questions from people facing the same worries, along with the responses HOTOKE AI offered them.