Mindfulness on the GO: Noticing & accepting our dislikes This is another good on the go mindfulness exercise: become aware and paying attention to your aversions, what you dislike, the arising of negative feelings toward someone or something. This is the opposite […]
Mindfulness on the GO: Appreciating the little stuff Learning to appreciate even to be grateful about this and that or about someone is a wonderful mindfulness practice that anyone can practice several times during the day. Initially it will not be easy especially when we are taking things for grated, when we are on […]
Mindfulness 24/7 Practical exercise #3 Listening Mindfulness is to pay attention, to focus on the present moment and any of its components. To be mindful is two fold: 1)To be like a mirror: reflecting things as they are in the present moment using a thoughtless mind that is without a pre-conceived mindset in a […]
Mindfulness on the go: Practical exercise #1 using your non-dominant hand Mindfulness is to pay attention, to focus on the present moment and any of its components. To be mindful is two fold: To be like a mirror: reflecting things as they are in the present moment using a thoughtless mind that is without a […]
Reality: absolute vs. virtual The main goal of Zen Buddhism’s practice is to experience mindfully and in the moment our surrounding reality or truth using our senses because it is the only absolute one. The other so-called “reality” is mind-made opinion or judgment and therefore called relative truth. Example: 2 guys are separated by a […]
Boredom is a great opportunity Boredom is a feeling of displeasure, impatience and emptiness arising out of a conflict between a constant need for physical /mental activity, distraction, connection and lack of incitement to it, or inability to be incited. Boredom is a frequent because we cannot tolerate not being busy doing something whatever […]
WHAT IS THIS BALL IN WHICH WE ARE ENTANGLED? .......AND THE ANSWER IS................ OUR MIND!
Suffering Part 2: The 8Th Foldpath to seek & achieve Nirvana Some 2500 years ago, few days before dying the Buddha ( the awakened one ) declared: "I teach suffering, its origin, its cessation and path to cessation. That's all I teach". He was around 83 years […]
Your medical appointment with Doctor Siddharta Gautama : nickname "the Buddha" Your complain(s) presented your doc: Dissatisfaction, unhappiness, dislike, anger, worries, sadness, fear, anxiety, grief, disease, aging, pain, etc All of these cause suffering. Diagnosis of your disease = "First Noble Truth/ Reality" Life contains physical & mental "suffering". This is not pessimism, just […]
Suffering: What, How and Freedom from Part 1 Four Noble Truths also called Noble Realities in modern versions Suffering & its causes exist in life, whatever we do. This is not doom& gloom, just reality. Suffering arises from 1) desire/ graving, 2) hatred/aversion and 3) Ignorance, which […]
