Consciousness vs. thinking We need consciousness to think but we don’t need thinking to be conscious. Therefore, one can use consciousness to control thinking that is thoughts and feelings. Like all our body functions, thinking – around 72,000 thoughts/day - is subconscious since we are not aware that we are thinking until we decide […]
Learning to understand people. A Zen perspective We are hearing automatically but are we listening? How often do you try to understand people by listening to them actively? Most of us don’t. In fact, quite often and based on the power of our ego gravity we usually decide not to consider another point of […]
BEFORE and AFTER ENLIGHTENMENT Before enlightenment you sleep, walk, eat, drink, pee, poop, work, raise kids, have fun and pain, die. After enlightenment you sleep, walk, eat, drink, pee, poop, work, raise kids, have fun and pain, die. So, what is the difference?
“Graveyards are full of indispensable people” This is a classic quote often used by French President General De Gaulle when he has to fire someone from his cabinet. In fact he never fired anyone since he was asking the person to sign her/his resignation letter when hired. He decided just to add the […]
Awareness, sensation and meanings of breathing When a monkey is screaming non-stop, the zookeepers try to distract him, usually with a banana or a toy. When your monkey mind is on a non-stop talkative mode, you should try to distract him and divert his attention by forcing him to focus on something else. The […]
The story of Jo and Maria JO: Jo is 40. At 6:30 am and 10 or 11 pm he brushes his teeth during 5 min...without his mind!. Of course Jo is not mindless but his mind is not where this guy is and not doing what Jo's hands are doing! While Jo's body is […]
Dealing with a negative mind All news networks executives know very well that, in order to attract viewers and income from commercials, the content of the news must be at least 70% “bad news” such as natural disasters, wars, crime, terrorism, accidents, etc. This is exactly what we are getting even […]
Suffering from “I am giving up” (Chatting with a leaf) To give up is to resign reluctantly. […]
If I focus only on expecting positive results from the outside world, I may or will never succeed for the better and be happier since many of them depend on things, events, people for which and for whom I have little or no control whatsoever. But if I focus mostly in changing myself, I may […]
The stream of thoughts The stream of our thoughts has enormous power and momentum that can easily drag you along. It is like sitting on a little kayak in the middle of a lethal white river. Our emotions are like whirlpools in which we are sucked. Every thought pretends that it is real and […]
