5 Lessons I Took Home From A Meditation Training In Thailand
Life is a wonderful gift to those who pay attention to its features and all its forms. Paying attention is a skill that requires nobody else but ourselves to master. My second experience with the World Peace Initiative Foundation in Thailand has given me the power that nobody can take away from me. It is […]
A Recipe For A Healthy Relationship: Do You Have The Right Ingredients?
On mindfulness and consciousness as a solid way to achieve healthy relationships. Lately, the word “Healthy” is becoming trendy. Every day you find people on Facebook and Instagram posting photos of their healthy meals or writing posts that show affection to their partners or friends or family. I am sure you too have bumped a lot into these […]
Why We Keep Failing At Love
The concept of love has existed as long as the human race. For centuries, scholars have tried to come up with different definitions of love but it never suffices due to the complexities involved in this magical word or feeling. So many times I’ve tried to understand what this word means but it has never […]
Here Comes Love Again… Wait, Really?
On desiring infinity while experiencing finitude. Thoughts on love. Part I. In our practical life, we love people, pets, stuff, nature, art etc. We experience this feeling not only in romantic contexts but in many others – or at least we can be open to feel love in multiple ways. However, the fact that we love […]
Practice Locally, Love Globally: Survival Guide For Liquid Times
On staying sane in times of change. Part III (part I , part II ) When we go through transformative experiences such as an important trip, moving to another country, starting a new career path, becoming a parent, falling in/out of love, – we stop being “somebody”, the one we were before. We enter into a […]
Do I See Myself From The Right Angle?
How to stand your ground when you feel you have lost yourself? Or when you are sitting and wandering why this is happening to me, why I can’t be free from the pestering thoughts. Let’s all take a deep breath and a step backward! When we are sitting too close, we often can’t see the whole picture. Some […]
How Nature Can Inspire Some Habits
I have been observing the curious life of meditators for a certain number of years. From the journals of people who are writing their daily thoughts and experiences, I have come to notice that we often feel motivated to pay attention to the patterns arising in the mind, the quality of our inner talk and […]
How Peru Going To Football World Cup Can Inspire You To Meditate
My generation did not see Peru in the World Cup. Last time Peru went was June 1982. I was exactly 20 days of birth when the Football World Cup began. Of course, I can´t remember it. But what I remember since being very little is the expression “I will do when Peru is going to Football World […]
I Won´t Lose My Grasping – Note From Consciousness
On staying sane in times of change. Part II. (part I here) If there is one thing in which different philosophies, worldviews, spiritual systems, and cosmologies coincide regarding reality is that change is the only certainty in this world. Impermanence – name it in eastern philosophies, change – in other places. However you understand this, […]
Vacuity: What Can Take You Beyond Happiness
Have you ever heard the word vacuity? First time I heard this word was in a meditation class. I did not actually fully understand it. The theory provided by the teacher was kind of difficult for me. In general, Buddhist philosophy to me is very interesting but also full of concepts and words that are not so easy […]