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 [...]

Moving Beyond Emotions

Emotions are really moving. Go ahead and feel the emotion… Disappointment or enthusiasm, sadness or joy, anger or love, it will move into something else. Let go of the label you have been accustomed to stick on the movement. Feel the energy, become aware of its coming and going. Be alert to the information your [...]

Mintea Ne-limitata. O perspectiva.

O mare parte a timpului, in viata de zi cu zi, incercam sa construim, mai mult sau mai putin constient, strategii pentru a obtine ceea ce dorim si a ne feri de ceea ce ne displace. Fie ca e vorba de succes in cariera sau armonie in familie, mintea este preocupata sa gaseasca modalitati de [...]

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 [...]