“Each of us has a variety of habitual tactics for avoiding life as it is… To train to stay open and curious, to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs, is the best use of our human lives.” Pema Chodron
New Year Resolutions?
Thinking about making New Year Resolutions? You might consider making a commitment about how you want to be, besides what you want to do. Actually, it is reasonable to believe that we do things because of what we imagine we feel when we accomplish those deeds. The bad news is that we are deeply [...]
Trust Yourself
In our Western world, stable self-confidence and an adequate self-esteem are highly praised as neccessary ingredients for a successful and fulfilled life. What if these ‘qualities’ are in fact obstacles we need to overcome on our way to acquiring a content, satisfied and happy mind? Both self-confidence and self-esteem imply duality and comparison to others, [...]
Past Present Future
Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Look deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. [...]
Evolution, Buddhist Relics and Human Beings
From a macro-molecule millions of years ago, to the complex human beings we are now… Isn’t it fabulous? The countless lifetimes that we all have been through? Not as individualities, but as life breathing in and out, in different ways, in the bodies, and sometimes minds, of different sorts of beings. It seems that we [...]
Calea Mintii si a Inimii
Cu ocazia expozitiei Heart Shrine Relic Tour care va avea loc la Pitesti (10-12 iunie 2011) voi oferi cu sprijinul Centrului Seeds for Happiness programul „Calea Mintii si a Inimii”, repere care pot fi de folos pentru a avansa pe calea cunoasterii de sine si a lumii, pentru mai multa libertate interioara si implinire ca [...]
Happy Easter
“Being happy is not a matter of destiny. It is a matter of options.” Dalai Lama
A Middle Way
“Let’s look at this flower from the Buddhist point of view. My attachment for the flower is a symptom. It shows that I overestimate the value of the flower. I wish to become one with the flower and never separate from it for the rest of my life. You understand now, how sick I am? [...]
About Mind and Life – Kopan November Course insights
Each mind has a past and a future, and no present. Each moment, your present is already past because it has turned into your future. Being mindfully aware of what happens in your inner world and in the outer world can bring satisfaction and contentment. Regardless of what you think or do, or what the [...]
About Life and Mind – Kopan November Course insights
We are a combination of change and impermanence, lacking inherent existence, ruled by the law of cause and effect, striving to be happy and to avoid being unhappy. Complicating things to suit to our view of the world as dictated by our personality is not a must. Making great plans to fulfill grand dreams, or [...]
