It’s Not What We Think One of the strangest mysteries of life is that people, events and things are, usually, not what we think they are. Taking an analogy with a computer, each of our individual perception is triggered by zillion of gigabits coming nonstop from the outside world. This is the […]
The Greatest illusionist is ...our mind Great illusionists are very skillful to mislead or falsely persuade us that what they are doing is real. Remember Uri Geller bending spoons few meters away or someone cutting a person in half while in a coffin. These shows are very entertaining but we know they are […]
Only ongoing change is permanent. Part 1 We like comfort and stability but resist and even fear the ongoing changes. It is probably liked to our 200,000 years evolution where search for stability is a default mode. The last words of the Buddha before dying from mushroom poison were: “Everything is transient. Understand, accept and […]
Meditation on material & immaterial focus points The opposite of meditation is mental distraction since, apart from few moments of concentration during the day, we are distracted by around 90,000 thoughts on a daily basis. In other words,we are not just talking to ourselves all the time but we are also our own faithful […]
The A,B,C,.......... of mindfulness meditation Mindfulness meditation is a challenging physical and mental skill to grasp. Here are the key attributes, in alphabetic order, to consider. This list is not exhaustive. ATTITUDE: Attitude is a mental trait. Having an open mind is important to understand, consider and practice meditation. Meditation is still an alien […]
Letting go With different wording this is the forth talk over the last 5 years about letting go because it is a difficult but important skill to learn and master. The most efficient trap to get a monkey is the box with a small round hole in front and a large banana inside. The […]
TheMatrix movies: an allegory to Zen Buddhism philosophy It took 4 years for the brothers Wachoskis to find a studio and cast to produce this very ambitious Trilogy made of theology, religions, philosophy and cyber science. Hollywood found it too intellectual. Here are 6 allegories related to Zen philosophy The name NEO is […]
The Path to be friend with self: Knowing, Accepting, Loving. Part 2 The way our minds works is always by opposites and contrast—good-bad, up-down, in-out, right-wrong black or white etc.—so what we see positively simultaneously provide of the opposite. That contrast is challenging but it is where the real work of to be friend with […]
Being friend with our self. Part 1 “What am I?” is a classic koan given to Zen students to solve. What do we really know about ourselves.? We put many different masks depending of the circumstances and goals. There are so many choices. Our participation in this social game of appearances can become […]
How to hack “happiness”? or better said, how to hack serenity? How often do you say silently:“I am grateful of...” NEVER. We take everything for granted & we deserve whatever, In this talk I will use the word happiness by convention rather than serenity, which is the real meaning. We all claim we want happiness […]
