Meditating on silence : Its positive impacts  on your brain as if you were inside it. During meditation we focus on a specific target  such as breathing to anchor our mind to slow down its flow of thoughts and feelings besides achieving a relaxing effect. There are already few Dharma talks on our website describing […]

Heasy path to happiness We all seek happiness and naturally avoid suffering. Yet most of us look for happiness outside ourselves—in possessions, achievements, relationships, or recognition. The challenge is that everything external has limitations. It is temporary and cannot last forever. Even when we obtain something we greatly desire, the pleasure often fades with time. […]

Do you exist without an ego?  A Zen perspective.  The answer depends entirely on which lens you look through. If you talk to a Zen practitioner,  a Western psychologist, or a neuroscientist, you will get 3 completely different answers. To make sense of it, it helps to first separate the two terms, because we often […]

UNLOADING : A core skill from Zen teaching to practice.  In Zen, the concept and practice of "unloading or undoing" doesn't mean destroying something or making yourself stupid, transparent and passive. Instead, it is the deliberate process of  stripping away our layers of conceptual thinking, labelling, conditioning, habits, and our ego-driven behaviour. All of them […]