Do you love yourself? or searching self-acceptance Another strange Zen sentence. Don’t take it literally! It has nothing to do with narcissism or hedonistic behavior. Zen is teaching that, in order to be nice, empathic, compassionate and generous with others, which is a mean goal, we have first, to do the same for ourselves […]

                                          Happiness vs. Serenity: a big difference? Often we equate happiness with serenity but their origin, meaning and purpose are totally different. To achieve serenity, it is important to differentiate them. Happiness (end of XVI c= hap= “good fortune/luck “ is a genetically programmed, ego driven, genuine and transient emotional reaction whereas serenity is […]

                                               Achieving a “ Don’t know mind” Zen literature is full of strange, confusing and misleading words an such as “empty mind”, “don’t know mind” , “mind before thinking”, “original mind”. In the strict literally sense a “don’t know mind” is understood as a mind empty of knowledge, at max, an idiot mind. In its […]

                                                           Spacing our mind  When we look, by definition, we always look at something or somebody. Cannot be otherwise. During the day, we look at zillion of visual objects such as screen, the road, the face of someone, your plate, your watch, your face in the mirror, etc.... We never look at the space existing […]