Setting up your GPS in life Here is a metaphor: Live your life like a wise captain who is steering the boat, and setting the course when necessary, but also letting the wind, waves, and currents do most of the work. If you stand at the helm, and try to force the rudder against […]

OUR MAIN AFFLICTION The following is an adaptation of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Dharma teaching.  Our main afflictions in this modern world are not suffering per se, or any kind of negative feelings.  Our main affliction is that we don’t know how to handle suffering, its causes, and consequences constructively to achieve equanimity. So, what do […]

 Awakening: what is it? & how to experience it? What is it?  Being Awakened or Enlightened means to free ourselves from our permanent daydreaming state  that is, not being a prisoner of our wandering mind-made fictional world main source of “suffering”.  How?    1)Directly in a mindful way, by observing, then by letting them go,  our […]

The Second Noble Truth (Part 2) Last time we were talking about the second noble truth, we started to examine the cause of Dukkha. The Buddha mentioned greed, aversion, and delusion as the three poisons, which bring problems for us and in the world. Today we will look at delusion or ignorance as one of […]