The importance of mastering our attention
Ask yourself for a moment: What is the usual focus of your attention? Are you able to direct your attention towards whatever you want? How many times in a day are you looking for distractions and avoid being in the present moment? Do you feel that you are spending more energy in trying to change […]
The secret of Anapanasati and how to apply it in meditation?
The most common and basic meditation technique since Buddha’s time has been the conscious observation of the breathing, also known as anapanasati or mindfulness of breathing. Why is this practice so important for meditation? In this article, I am going to show the powerful characteristics of breathing as a meditation object. Directing our attention When […]
How to love what you don’t like?
To be able to love is to be able to live a fulfilled life. This capacity is inside every single human being. Rejecting it is like throwing our most precious jewel to the floor and living below our maximum potential of development. Why then do we still don’t want to love certain things? Two possible […]
Living on a boat: 7 benefits of a simple life
Can you imagine living with half of the belongings that you have? Do you think you could manage to live in one third of the space of your house or flat? Would your awareness of the use of natural resources change if you had to generate your own electricity and live with limited amount of […]
How to develop a true friendship?
Developing friendship with other people is essential in our lives due to our own very nature. Human beings are relational beings, as everything we find in the nature. Our identity is shaped by the relationships that we establish with our world or environment, our society, other people and with something that transcends us. Therefore, we […]