Worried about worrying This email was sent to me: “I am worried almost all the time and about everything. How do I work against it?” Anxiety is a growing mental state affecting all ages even the youngest ones. The causes are numerous and beyond the scope of this talk. “ Working against it” is […]

                                                     Spiritual and Material self-care When we talk about self-care, we usually referring to proper diet, exercise and sleep. This is only part of global self-care. In Zen, however, self-care is an oxymoron. Why? A fundamental teaching of Zen Buddhism is the concept of “no-self”. No-self does not mean that we don’t exist as living […]

                              Breathing: your app to the calming reality of the moment Reality is what we are experiencing concretely in the moment thru our consciousness. It should not be confused with virtual reality that our mind is producing. Thoughts and feelings do exist but are, by definition, virtual, fictional and the fruit of our imagination. When […]

                                               When boredom becomes an opportunity  We don’t like to be bored. When we are actively engaged in something, there is no boredom. But when there is nothing interesting or mandatory to absorb our attention or entertain, it starts to hurt our self-image very quickly. But if we suddenly become idle in our space-time, we […]