Zap, our cute little Shih-Tzu dog loves to chase its tail. One day I was watching him running around and started to laugh at him. He stopped, looked at me, and said quite upset: "I don't understand you daddy: being a Zen Master you should know that a dog chasing its tail is no more […]
Definition: To mislead or falsely persuade someone that something is true or real. The first thing I have learned over the last 11 years from my Zen teachers and practice is not to trust my mind at all cost. Of course proper thinking is critical in our day-to-day life to make decisions, to plan and […]
Do you realize that the odds to be born are only 1/ ~100 million (WHO statistics)
What is focusing? To focus is: “To direct attention or effort on something / somebody.” To concentrate, to pay attention, to center, to be aware. To force the mind to think / concentrate on one thing at a time during a period of time for whatever reason, task or goal.
#1: Focusing mindfully* on your anchor (breathing)** and body*** is mind control. #2: Focusing mindfully on your incoming thoughts is mind control. #3: Focusing back on your anchor is mind control. There is no good or bad meditation since the numbers of thoughts that are […]
Like thoughts, annoyances and distractions are integral part of our meditation and we should not see that as failures. They are called weeds. They bother us all the time at different degrees and intervals. Your mind hates meditation and it is fighting back by sawing its weeds. They will break your concentration, make you restless, […]
What screws us the most in life: Probably what screws us the most in life is the movie that our mind is making of it that is how life supposed to be according to our opinions, beliefs, values, judgments and expectations. Unfortunately we cannot be at the same time the producer, director, screen writer, music […]
Good question but this question is a mind spam! Don't click on it by trying to judge your meditation or you will loose everything! Assessing the quality of our meditation is the most efficient way.... to quit; more than 80% of beginners do so after few weeks! Meditation is simple but quite demanding and very […]
Zen is teaching us that when we are facing a problem in our life it originates more often from our thoughts, opinions, beliefs, expectations and desires rather than from the outside world. Most problems come from our self-centered mind that we call our shadow.
Kneading clay to make a beautiful and useful pot is hard work, patience, determination, skill and experience but it's only the "nothing inside" this pot that gives us the use of the vessel. SO WHAT!.... you may ask. Open up your mind and empty it - somewhat - by dropping some of your cherish opinions, […]
