Awakening         Main attributes toward equanimity, and eventually Awakening Part 2 To be awakened in its Eastern philosophical root means not to be a daydreamer that is to realize that our mind is the greatest illusionist of all time.  The practice of meditation is the best tool not to be trapped in its tricks. Here is […]

                                                                           Attributes towards equanimity, and eventually Awakening Part 1 Awakening is not something miraculous, a divine and mysterious bliss for which we have to work hard to achieve. It already exists in all of us, deep inside. The secret is to reveal it by bringing our ego balloon from its stratosphere, back down to earth.  […]

Mind: our conceptual prison How easy it is for us to be trapped in our conceptual prison called mind, isn’t it? “ I am right,” says the mind: The human mind is a wonderful instrument, hungry for thoughts, knowledge, understanding, judging, and controlling, but too often, it will mistake its opinions, viewpoints, and mindset with […]

 This is part of a series of Dharma talks dedicated to the practice of mindfulness on the go Write down the number of things, people, and situations that you would like not to be around you. I bet you your list of what, and whom you dislike is a long one.  Your negative feelings could […]

One of the main jobs of our ego is self-defense. When someone criticizes you, blames you, or calls you names using any means either publicly, privately, or behind your back your ego could explode…… BOOM! We tend to retaliate, defend, and justify ourselves almost automatically while being criticized. It is happening all the time. To […]

 Listening to silence to mute the mind and quiet our body  Our mind is extremely sensitive to its sensorial receptors - visual, audio, touch, smell, and taste.  Connected to our surroundings is critical to function socially, and survive, and our mind is computing zillions of data from our receptors all the time. How to listen […]

 Anxiety: a mental tug of war to deal with it. Anxiety can be defined as the capacity to predict a negative outcome of an even X which does not exist yet. It is based on the fact that the human brain is biased- by default- towards negative outcomes x5 more than towards positive outcomes.  Anxiety […]

VR was discovered around 2,500 years ago by Zen Our mind produces around 120,000 thoughts/feelings every day.  There are 2 types of mental activities: our thinking mind, and dreaming mind.  Of course, cognitive, factual thinking is critical in our day-to-day activities for decisional analysis such as during work, but most of the time, our dreaming […]

   Training  mind, body, and heart while facing stress What I like about Zen is that it is practical as long you practice it diligently.  Stressors are everywhere, permanent, either acute i.e. loss of a loved one or chronic such as guilt They are defined as an event being perceived as out of our control. […]

The Breath as a Bridge Our bodies have both conscious and unconscious awareness, conscious and unconscious behavior, and conscious and unconscious minds. For instance, we can think, consciously, ‘I want to move my arm’, and then move our arm. We feel like we have agency and control over that. We also have unconscious behavior. For […]