Student: “ Zen is teaching us to quiet the mind but I can’t. I am always thinking about this and that, about the past, the future, my current issues, my work. It is non stop, even if I have being meditating for months!”  Our mind and its hardware component, the brain, are working 24/7 like […]

Contrary to our Western medicine, the Oriental one and Zen Buddhism consider Mind and Body as an unbreakable single unit in which each part affects the other one continuously and at different degrees. Body functions, thoughts and emotions are the jobs of our subconscious and conscious mind. If thinking does not affect our body, our […]

The word meditation comes from the Latin meditare, which is the passive form of the verb. It means "being moved to the centre" Please note: it is not the active form that means "moving to the centre" So, who / what is moving us? Meditation does. When we meditate we are being moved to the centre of self […]

French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes wrote his famous “I think therefore I am” in 1637. Is equating our identity with thinking and equating thinking with Being (I am) a delusion? Is Being more than thinking? Can we be more than our mind and our thoughts? Of course, to function as a human being would […]