More and more of us cannot deny that our choices have an impact on other living beings. When we eat meat, use cows for milk, hens for eggs, we create unnecessary suffering. Sooner or later this suffering comes back to us in the form of allergies, sensitivities etc
DetailsThere are certain times in the day when the mind is more accessible. The morning is one of them.
Here is why:
DetailsAs children we learn that we have to do certain things that we don’t enjoy because it is necessary. We may resist ‘work’ for example, because it isn’t something we really enjoy. It is something we do, in order to have money, in order to then do what we enjoy. Thus joy becomes a future event that quite likely doesn’t happen, because the brain isn’t wired that way to start with. The brain experiences happiness in the present moment, full stop. So when we set up pathways of misery, we feel that same misery no matter how things actually improve. We can get all the money we want, or get the coolest partner, but if the brain pattern has misery, that’s how we feel. ugh. I know. So therein comes meditation, because meditation and other mind oriented practices help change the neural networks that create the experience of misery.
DetailsIgnorance, no matter how perfectly it is practiced, will still give more suffering, it is not a solution for the human dilemma of uncertainty. Yet we cannot remove all ignorance, therefore we have to practice non-attachment.
DetailsWithout a practice of self-awareness, going through life is like keeping your eyes closed on a train journey and missing out on the view!. You get from point a to b, but you miss out on everything that came in between.
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