It is stated that if we realize that our feelings such as anger, anxiety, worry and jealousy, occur or hide within our mind, we will mindfully guard our own mind, not to react to what we contact with too quickly as it will provoke those of our feelings. We will calmly and mindfully observe things before we allow ourselves to react to them. Calmness and mindfulness become our patience and make us think twice, not to be easily distracted by any feeling.
Life is compared to coffee, so we can make the flavour that we like.
We will be endlessly unhappy, if we try to control the uncontrollable things. It is true as this world keeps changing; we cannot control anything in this world, even our own life. For example, we cannot control our age, we are just getting older and older. We cannot control our health, we are subject to…
It is stated that things like fear and addiction cannot control us, if we don’t allow them, we just let things take their own natural course. Then, we will have freedom beyond both fear and addiction. On the contrary, if we allow them to control us, we would be their slave.
It is stated that life will be like what we feed it. For example, if we feed it with love, we will be loved. On the contrary, if we feed it with greed and hatred, we will be greedy and hated. Similarly, we will become what we eat; if we eat healthy food, we will…
There are two meanings of wanting; unwholesome and wholesome. It is unwholesome, when it causes suffering, more wanting, inadequateness, chaos and no peace. It is wholesome, when wanting comes to end suffering, detach from desire, practise and develop oneself for the better. Which wanting do you want to have, unwholesome or wholesome? It is free…
Practice makes perfect: a girl learned to play a violin, but the sound of violin she played was irritating. Her grandpa asked her, “What musical instrument is it, you are playing? She answered, “Violin, grandpa.” He thought violin produced such an annoying sound. Next morning, he walked the girl to school, near the school building, he heard a…