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 [...]
Back from the Future – experiencing the Lamrim at Kopan Monastery, Nepal
I recently returned from a 7 weeks Tibetan Buddhism meditation course and retreat at the Kopan Monastery in Nepal. My purpose in going there was not so much related to a so-called ‘spiritual journey’, but more to a quest for meaningful and effective means for personal transformation which could be beneficial for myself and for [...]
