Why is it so hard to meditate every day? Our Western culture is imposing on us to be busy. Our ego also loves to be busy because it implies “ I am indispensable, important, I am not lazy, and I don’t want to be bored”. To the question “ How are you doing? most of […]

                                   Letting Go This is Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching about the practice of nurturing serenity using letting go. Taken and largely edited by myself from  his book: “No Mud, No Lotus.” One method of creating /maintaining serenity is to leave behind, to accept.  There is a kind of joy, and liberation that comes […]

Sounds familiar?                                                                                                                              Emotional suffering begins when you mentally label a person, a situation, or an event  as negative such as: 1- Either coming from Desire: ..............meaning not getting what you want. 2- Or coming from Hatred: ..................meaning getting what you don’t want  3- Or coming from Illusion/delusion: Not being able to differentiate realities of life […]

Creating gaps in the stream of your thinking Discover inner peace by creating gaps in the stream of your thinking. Without those freedom gaps, our thoughts are repetitive, uninspired, and devoid of creative spark, and decisions.  They are just daydreaming stuff made of desire, hatred, illusions, delusions, positive & negative feelings, or just navigating in […]

                                                               What is Awakening? Awakening is a shift of consciousness from ongoing thinking to active awareness, allowing awareness to take over our constant daydreaming thinking in which we are trapped and lost, and what Zen calls. “Day sleepwalking” or “Thinking zombie ”. Awareness, as a direct consequence of Awakening, is experiencing surrounding concrete realities of […]