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 […]