Are you blind? About our emotional outbursts Few months ago, I was walking downtown Oakville, with my arms full of stuff when someone roughly bumps into me so hard that my groceries went all over the ground. As I picked up the puddle of broken eggs and tomato juice, I was ready to […]
Zen serenity as taught by a little dog Our 10-year-old wonderful Shih Tzu named Zap is a perfect example of calmness & serenity except when he is asking to go out for a pee or when time for food […]
Mind-Made 6 poisons The main roadblock against inner peace and serenity is our ego-driven mind Our “I, ME, MYSELF and MINE” are critical for identification, survival, protection, enhancement, pleasure, procreation and many more other functions. This is wonderful but..... Zen Buddhism considers our little self that is “I” is also the main cause […]
Meditation: its 2 most common obstacles As long you have been meditating, for 80 years or 2 weeks, all of us are encountering the extremes of drowsiness and agitation during the practice. Drowsy or agitated mind are the 2 most frequent obstacles in meditation. From time to time, it is impossible to escape […]
Meditation: an update from Neuroscience studies Mindfulness is paying attention moment- to- moment to ourselves and our environment w/o analytic and decisional purpose. During the past 25 years or so neurosciences have been very productive in trying to understand how mindfulness works. But, like for any scientific research, some studies regarding mindfulness […]
Time can be a dread Once a while, I observe animals and pets and envy their pragmatism, calm and, maybe, their wisdom. Their life is not fun, mostly routine. They suffer like all of us and yet they do not seem to make a “big deal of their dull and non-exciting life ”. […]
Change: Resisting vs. Accepting How are we dealing with changes? Do we resist them? Accept them? Don’t care? Do they make you happy or sad, optimistic or worried?, angry or serene? Remember this: everything we take for granted is constantly changing in way or the other. The formation of the clouds in the […]
Fear, its attributes and how to try to overcome it. By Harish Verma Fear is an emotion that is our companion from the womb to the tomb. The cave man lived with the fear thunder, going hungry without food etc. And we live in the ultimate fear our safety […]
Mind is like water Our mind is like a clear glass of water. If you put salt into the water, it becomes salt water; adding sugar, […]
MEDITATION IN DAILY LIFE by Kris Mohan Physical & mental Stress is a fact of daily life. If we analyze the root cause of stress and suffering, we would conclude that, beside hatred and ignorance that is illusion/delusion, “desire/graving” is the main culprit in all its manifestations. Many of our sorrows and causes of […]
