Our addiction to conceptualizing, and interpreting life, and its content. Do we always need to conceptualize, analyze, interpret, judge, and label everybody, and everything that comes into our endless thinking? Yes, when a decision has to be made for whatever reason.  But these situations are rare, and yet, out of around 110,000 thoughts /day that […]

Bursting our mental bubble  The stronger we are attached to our verbal, mental, and emotional habits to people, things, and situations, the more refractory, shallow, and lifeless we become to factual, genuine surrounding realities.  It is like living in a mind-made bubble full of a mental/emotional virtual world created by “the thinker me” rather than […]

    When there is no answer Quite often we question:  “ why?…why?….how comes!……I don’t understand this, that, her, him !……etc…… ……..because we have been educated to find answers, and get an opinion at all costs, all the time about almost everything, about everybody.  Having an opinion on almost anything is an important skill while chatting […]

                                                        Only impermanence is permanent Asked what was the most important message of his 50 years of teaching, the Buddha, without hesitation, replied to these words. “Everything is transient, work diligently to appreciate and experience your impermanence.” It was his last words a few minutes before dying from mushroom poisoning. As Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki […]

The secret of life is to die before we die Death will evaporate if you don’t be too attached to all that stuff that is not the real you.  What is not you is how your ego is defining itself, and what your mind-driven self-talk is saying.         Examples: Possessions, the work you do, social status […]