What is focusing? To focus is: “To direct attention or effort on something / somebody.” To concentrate, to pay attention, to center, to be aware. To force the mind to think / concentrate on one thing at a time during a period of time for whatever reason, task or goal.

  #1: Focusing mindfully* on your anchor (breathing)** and body*** is mind control.       #2: Focusing mindfully on your incoming thoughts is mind control.     #3: Focusing back on your anchor is mind control.         There is no good or bad meditation since the numbers of thoughts that are […]

Like thoughts, annoyances and distractions are integral part of our meditation and we should not see that as failures. They are called weeds. They bother us all the time at different degrees and intervals. Your mind hates meditation and it is fighting back by sawing its weeds. They will break your concentration, make you restless, […]

Good question but this question is a mind spam! Don't click on it by trying to judge your meditation or you will loose everything! Assessing the quality of our meditation is the most efficient way.... to quit; more than 80% of beginners do so after few weeks! Meditation is simple but quite demanding and very […]

  Zen is teaching us that when we are facing a problem in our life it originates more often from our thoughts, opinions, beliefs, expectations and desires rather than from the outside world. Most problems come from our self-centered mind that we call our shadow.

  Kneading clay to make a beautiful and useful pot is hard work, patience, determination,  skill and experience but it's only the "nothing inside" this pot that gives us the use of the vessel. SO WHAT!.... you may ask. Open up your mind and empty it - somewhat - by dropping some of your cherish opinions, […]

Few years ago my Zen Master Yangil Sunim asked me to study this obscure Zen saying: “Cultivate a - don’t know mind - and everything becomes clear as a blue sky” Then he added: “Don’t know mind opens the door to serenity and tolerance. It is the foundation of Zen practice. Work on this” Zen […]

  The purpose of this talk is to share with you the Zen perspective and not to convince you. What is a restless mind? Zen uses a colorful language to describe our mind and how we are slave to it: “monkey mind”, “thinking zombies”, “day sleepwalking”, “non-stop talking”, and “wild horse mind”. Our mind is […]

 The purpose of the following is simply to present the Zen perspective and not to convince. Desire, anger and illusions are our main poisons. Among our emotions such as guilt, fear, resentment, doubt, confusion and jealousy anger is probably our most common one. “Being angry” does not mean I am "this anger". Anger is not […]

It seems appropriate to refresh our view on meditation. It’s why and how, its myths and its realities. An extensive review about meditation is posted on our web site: http://www.mindfulnesszenmeditation.ca/zenmeditation/ http://www.mindfulnesszenmeditation.ca/misconceptions-about-meditation-25feb15/ http://www.mindfulnesszenmeditation.ca/zen-mini-meditation/ http://www.mindfulnesszenmeditation.ca/tv-clips-on-meditation-and-stress-management/ http://www.mindfulnesszenmeditation.ca/why-can-meditation-be-boring18feb15/ http://www.mindfulnesszenmeditation.ca/meditation-the-brain-how-it-works/ Research shows over and over again that between 80%- 85% of people who start meditation with various degree of understanding, […]