The triggers of our emotional pain A Zen perspective In a non-specific order, here is a very short list of our painful triggers. The most powerful are stress, regrets, anger, guilt, grieving, shame, anxiety (fear, worries), sadness, desire, (craving), hatred, hopelessness, illusion and chronic fatigue. Maybe less dramatic are: frustration, loneliness, boredom, […]
Meditation: sky gazing There is a Tibetan meditation practice called Sky Gazing that the Dalai Lama is practicing daily regardless of the weather. It is considered as one of the highest forms of mindfulness meditation because it is helping us to discover our state of pure consciousness or awareness liberated from our conceptual, judgmental […]
Becoming a Mind watcher Beside controlling our body and using its cognitive skills, our mind is a fantastic movie maker, producing around 90,000 films every days made of thoughts and emotions in different space-times, various scenarios and actor. We are inside the screen, trapped in this mind-made ongoing fictional worlds. Enough to become almost […]
Zen chat with a wave It was Monday July the 8th 2018. Fully awake at ~3 am and with a fantastic weather outside, I decided to dress-up and walk to the lake 10min. away. Seating on a bench and in a mindful way, I used my 5 senses to experience the serenity and beauty […]
Daily practice of “quantum Zen” Quantum physic studies the very very tiny physical particles. In the same way “quantum Zen” physic looks at the tiny tiny components of on-the-go Zen practice as opposed to its mega components such as formal sitting, walking meditations, koans and monthly one-on one interview between student and teacher. Tiny components […]
How to use our 5 senses to practice on-the-go mindfulness exercises The practice of mindfulness meditation, regardless its quality, is cumulative as far its beneficial effects tat is how we perceive life and its content, how to experience the reality of the moment and how we are able to control our mind. Hoe often […]
Stop being miserable in advance Another way to say it would be: “We should not try to be our own news maker with a mind-made 24h news channel, full of negativity”. It is well known among guru in media marketing that news content from the major broadcasting networks must be at least 75% to […]
The impossible task How often you are doing nothing or feel like it? The answer is simple: almost never because, as far the go is concerned, doing nothing will be unacceptable, detrimental to our social and self image. Our ego believes that we are important and indispensible then, “Doing nothing” is impossible, sort of […]
Hidden source of suffering The Sanskrit word “Dukkha” was poorly translated as “suffering”. “Dukkha” encompasses any negativity coming from life (I call it external negativity) and from our body-mind, that I call internal negativity) A small proportion of negativity is external such as accidents, disaster, lose of a loved one, separation, being fired, illness, etc; […]
