One of the things we could do on a daily basis would be to say to ourselves: Today, walking between bad or good mood, I choose to be in a good mood.
Every time something happens we do not like we can choose between doing the role of victims or learn from what happened to us.
I know it is not easy but life is really about choices and every situation offers us more an option.
It is up to us to choose how we live life.
Wednesday 31 August 2011
Tuesday 30 August 2011
Remove the filters of your mind
We must remember that all reality is relative.
There is my reality, the reality of the other one and yet the reality of another one.
When these filters are removed - "my", "the other" - our mind ceases to label and relativize the reality as true, false, right or wrong.
Then there is nothing more than the serenity of understanding.
There is my reality, the reality of the other one and yet the reality of another one.
When these filters are removed - "my", "the other" - our mind ceases to label and relativize the reality as true, false, right or wrong.
Then there is nothing more than the serenity of understanding.
Converting negative emotions into positive energy
If we look to our negative emotions carefully and without violence, we can turn them into healthy energy and even nourish ourselves with those emotions.
Through mindful observation, our negative emotions and unpleasant feelings can be very enlightening for us, offering us insight and understanding about ourselves and Life.
Through mindful observation, our negative emotions and unpleasant feelings can be very enlightening for us, offering us insight and understanding about ourselves and Life.
Monday 29 August 2011
Try it!
Start of another week.
Proposal of reflexion:
Even if you do not believe it, figure that your thoughts become real events on your life.
What would you do differently during the week?
Come on, try it!
Proposal of reflexion:
Even if you do not believe it, figure that your thoughts become real events on your life.
What would you do differently during the week?
Come on, try it!
Sunday 28 August 2011
Wellcome your inner "I"
Today is Sunday and Sunday calls for quietness.
But people tend to flee from silence, from moments of inner stillness.
It is in these moments that one can feel the presence within us of a stranger, the "I" that is at the same time, "I" and someone else.
It turns out that for many this "I" is not entirely welcome in their own home because it´s character is so different from the character they build everyday in their relationships with others in a permanent infidelity to themselves.
But people tend to flee from silence, from moments of inner stillness.
It is in these moments that one can feel the presence within us of a stranger, the "I" that is at the same time, "I" and someone else.
It turns out that for many this "I" is not entirely welcome in their own home because it´s character is so different from the character they build everyday in their relationships with others in a permanent infidelity to themselves.
Saturday 27 August 2011
The Universe is like a huge mirror
I make many references to the universe in my writings.
Sometimes people ask what is the meaning of the universe for me.
I confess that I always lengthen my attempts to explain it.
A few minutes ago I was at the elevator and when I looked at the mirror an explanation that sums up everything that can be said about the universe came in my mind.
The universe is like a huge mirror.
So if you smile the universe will reward you putting a smile back on your life.
Sometimes people ask what is the meaning of the universe for me.
I confess that I always lengthen my attempts to explain it.
A few minutes ago I was at the elevator and when I looked at the mirror an explanation that sums up everything that can be said about the universe came in my mind.
The universe is like a huge mirror.
So if you smile the universe will reward you putting a smile back on your life.
Friday 26 August 2011
Training temporal abstraction
Weekend is the ideal time to train the temporal abstraction.
Free your mind of what was the past week and what will be the following.
If you succeed go to the next step: Transform this into a daily exercise.
Getting rid of the need to define our identity and our personal role in the past and the future is the most profound revolution of consciousness.
It worths to try.
Free your mind of what was the past week and what will be the following.
If you succeed go to the next step: Transform this into a daily exercise.
Getting rid of the need to define our identity and our personal role in the past and the future is the most profound revolution of consciousness.
It worths to try.
Meditation is ecumenical
I know that Christians are asked to believe without seeing.
As St. Augustine said in his Confessions, God comes to us through the inner senses.
That´s the only way to receive the touch of something that is beyond the sensible, reaching the not visible to the senses.
But how to do it?
Watching the inside of our heart, which in most cases is difficult because of the pressure of external reality.
No, the advice was not from Buda.
This advice came from catholic called Ratzinger in a theological Comment written in 2000
As St. Augustine said in his Confessions, God comes to us through the inner senses.
That´s the only way to receive the touch of something that is beyond the sensible, reaching the not visible to the senses.
But how to do it?
Watching the inside of our heart, which in most cases is difficult because of the pressure of external reality.
No, the advice was not from Buda.
This advice came from catholic called Ratzinger in a theological Comment written in 2000
Thursday 25 August 2011
My way
How many times I have heard people saying "That's impossible" or "Be Realistic" when I speak about Zen.
I think we've all heard these phrases.
When the ideals that attract us are labeled as unrealistic we have two options: Either renounce them and accept to see the "realistic" life required by the others or cultivate our own reality in a quiet but determined way and receive the award of a richer life.
I think we've all heard these phrases.
When the ideals that attract us are labeled as unrealistic we have two options: Either renounce them and accept to see the "realistic" life required by the others or cultivate our own reality in a quiet but determined way and receive the award of a richer life.
Tuesday 23 August 2011
Keep in mind that life is fleeting
If people were fully aware of how life is fleeting, they would think twice before throwing away the opportunities they have to be and make others happy.
And time goes by so fast ...
But while we are around here we will have time to find God within us and give thanks for the gift of physical life given to us, that although transient, is perpetuated in us spiritually.
And time goes by so fast ...
But while we are around here we will have time to find God within us and give thanks for the gift of physical life given to us, that although transient, is perpetuated in us spiritually.
Monday 22 August 2011
Carving for the inner beauty
Did you know that when Michelangelo carved the statue of David, he believed that it was already inside the block of marble, and all he had to do was to take the excess to reveal the divine creation?
Here is a good way to visualize our inner life.
There is nothing in us so imperfect that requires an effort so exceptional.
There is an inner truth as beautiful as the statue of David waiting to emerge.
Here is a good way to visualize our inner life.
There is nothing in us so imperfect that requires an effort so exceptional.
There is an inner truth as beautiful as the statue of David waiting to emerge.
Proud to be a grain of sand in the Universe
We could be nothing more than grains of sand in the universe, but we defenetely are something in the Universe.
There is no reason to fear or be sad about it.
On the contrary.
That´s a good reason to be astonished and grateful of being part of a creation in which every grain of sand is designed with such detail and perfection.
And if we are just a grain of sand, then it is much easier than we thought to be good.
Just try to be be the best grain of sand that you can.
There is no reason to fear or be sad about it.
On the contrary.
That´s a good reason to be astonished and grateful of being part of a creation in which every grain of sand is designed with such detail and perfection.
And if we are just a grain of sand, then it is much easier than we thought to be good.
Just try to be be the best grain of sand that you can.
Friday 19 August 2011
Being Transparent
Many think that being transparent is to be honest and not cheat.
But being transparent is much more than that.
Is to have the courage to expose yourself, to be fragile, to cry, to talk your feelings , to strip the soul, to drop the masks, lay down the arms, destroy the walls.
But unfortunately, the majority doens´t want not take that risk.
Most prefer the hardness of the reason to the revealing light of human frailty.
But being transparent is much more than that.
Is to have the courage to expose yourself, to be fragile, to cry, to talk your feelings , to strip the soul, to drop the masks, lay down the arms, destroy the walls.
But unfortunately, the majority doens´t want not take that risk.
Most prefer the hardness of the reason to the revealing light of human frailty.
Mind fears to manage contingencies
Thoughts can fly, but what mind really likes is to be in a cage.
Mind voluntarily holds to all that does not change, that remains, to what repeats itself and to what is always the same.
That is mind loves souvenirs and memories.
Mind loves to be in this confort zone.
It's like running a business where nothing can go wrong.
Mind fears to manage contingencies.
Mind voluntarily holds to all that does not change, that remains, to what repeats itself and to what is always the same.
That is mind loves souvenirs and memories.
Mind loves to be in this confort zone.
It's like running a business where nothing can go wrong.
Mind fears to manage contingencies.
Wednesday 17 August 2011
Supernatural selection
During my holidays I read somewhere that at the end of the ice age humanity was reduced to about 2000 people.
That was close...!!!
Watching humanity nowadays makes me wonder if we are not risking to end like those people during the ice age.
And look to what the descendants of the survivors of the ice age did.
At that time, was a natural selection in which only the stronger survived.
In the future will be a supernatural selection in which only the most altruistic survive.
That was close...!!!
Watching humanity nowadays makes me wonder if we are not risking to end like those people during the ice age.
And look to what the descendants of the survivors of the ice age did.
At that time, was a natural selection in which only the stronger survived.
In the future will be a supernatural selection in which only the most altruistic survive.
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