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 NOW: The magic of the present moment Try to answer this question. How often your mind is in the present moment where your body is and what it is doing? For example, while you are driving, brushing your teeth, cutting the grass, eating, etc…. The answer:  Almost never. Apart from exceptions such as working, our […]

How many triangles do you see in this picture? Unless you’re being cheeky, you’d probably say five. Now imagine that you take one of the small outer triangles - say, the one on the top - and slide it away from the group. You move that triangle somewhere else: When you did that, what happened […]

FEAR: A Zen Perspective FEAR: A Zen PerspectiveBuddha soon after Enlightenment, stated some noble principles and the first one is that everything in thisworld is impermanent. Unfortunately, we are attached to these impermanent changing things/people, whichleads to our suffering. Fear is another word for suffering and it results because we are afraid of losing what […]

     Let me try to explain this metaphor:      From the bottom up:             The cup of the lamp is our material body.             The oil is our restless mind.             The wick is our ego.             The flame is the end result of the ego.      How does it work?             Our non-stop thinking […]

Gratitude Gratitude, as a quality of the heart, often escapes me. Like most people, I usually get carried away by the demands of everyday life, the endless to-do lists, the ongoing planning, and my over-active, problem-solving mind. Seldom do I stop and experience gratitude, and yet, I don’t think I’m alone in feeling as though […]