Oakville Zen Meditation
#265 HOW TO BE FRIEND WITH SELF Part 2 March 30 19

 The Path to be friend with self: Knowing, Accepting, Loving. Part 2  The way our minds works is always by opposites and contrast—good-bad, up-down, in-out, right-wrong black or white etc.—so what we see positively simultaneously provide of the opposite. That contrast is challenging but it is where the real work of to be friend with […]

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#264 HOW TO BE FRIEND WITH SELF March 17-19 Part 1

                                               Being friend with our self. Part 1 “What am I?” is a classic koan given to Zen students to solve.  What do we really know about ourselves.? We put many different masks depending of the circumstances and goals. There are so many choices. Our participation in this social game of appearances can become […]

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#263 HOW TO HACK SERENITY March 10h 19

How to hack “happiness”? or better said,  how to hack serenity? How often do you say silently:“I am grateful of...” NEVER. We take everything for granted & we deserve whatever, In this talk I will use the word happiness by convention rather than serenity, which is the real meaning. We all claim we want happiness […]

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# 262 Minding our mind ...24/7

                                            Minding our  mind 24/7… or almost As long as our minds are running around non-stop like a dog chasing its tail or unless we are focusing on a specific task requiring our attention, practicing mindfulness on the go is almost impossible, at list for beginners. Why? Because  our body is here doing something […]

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