The new season has begun. Though my definition of ‘the new season’ means not only the transition of the weather. It means the point when & where people are awoken… and realized they are a part of nature, just like other livings on the earth… Talking about the weather though is the easiest way to…
When the growing season started. I could take my mind off about the garden and my young plants easily. Even in the past few days, it has been snowing here and the weather is too cold and windy to work outside. My mind is still working in the garden. I would keep checking the weather…
Garden work is one form of meditation. Watch your mind while working. … Examine how your mind feels. … Just watch, do not manipulate it. And see how it goes… Is it furious? Is it calm? … Is it angry? Is it joyful? … Does it complain? Is it contented? … Does it hurry? Does…
Despite the science of the human mind (psychology). People are divided into nine personality types. But this thing happens because the experts try to explain and make people understand them even some of the personalities are disturbing. We want people to forgive more easily by understanding the flaws that one could do. On the other…
Anxiety does not have to indicate a negative meaning. Consider it as a state of human emotion. Anxiety is one of the signs telling us ‘something is going to happen.’ It is something in the future. That we do not know if it ‘will’ or it ‘will not’ really happen. Our mind, somehow, seems to…
Stay balanced is another (today) word of what Buddhists call ‘the middle way.’ When we say the middle way, people might often do not understand what it means. Especially, people who were growing up in a none-Buddhist culture. How to walk the middle path? How can we tell what and where the middle is? … But…
Have you ever observe how you eat your meal each day? Do you mindful eating? Well, usually people do not practice being mindful when eating. Because when we hungry, we just want to jump right away at any food we see in front of us. Especially, in a fast-moving world like today. We seem to…
Growing as a kid in the Buddhist culture is blessed. I have been learning the principle of living life as a Buddhist since my childhood. As I’m writing now. I’m grateful that my family had cultured this kind of Philosophy in me ever since. Today I am sharing the basic principle of life. That everyone…
A woman was crying to die since her son departed. She ran mourning from her house to the Buddha and requested him to bring her dead son alive again. Buddha said, “I’ll fulfill your wish but may I ask you a favor? You must go find a house where no family member dies. Come back…