I Find Peace Like This
In this category, we focus on exploring personal self-development, for instance, how meditation helps us discover our habits, make changes in life, become a better person in the local community and understand oneself better through extending meditation practice into personal life journey.
Barbara Contreras
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 …
Barbara Contreras
Sobre mantener la cordura en tiempos de cambios. Parte III (parte I, parte II) Cuando vivimos experiencias transformativas tales como un viaje importante, cambiarse de país, comenzar una nueva carrera profesional, ser padre/madre, enamorarse o desenamorarse, dejamos de ser “alguien”, el que éramos antes, y entramos en una nueva dimensión de nosotros que es desconocida …
Continue reading “Práctica Local, Amor Global: una guía para Tiempos Líquidos”
Marcie
A veces la curiosidad no es suficiente para crear nuevos hábitos o alcanzar tus objetivos y sueños. Nos llenamos de excusas, las cuales, probablemente solo sean una forma disfrazada de nuestros temores o simplemente estar en una zona muy segura de tu vida. Pero, ¿Qué podemos hacer para salir de nuestra zona de confort y …
Barbara Contreras
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 …
Continue reading “Practice Locally, Love Globally: Survival Guide For Liquid Times”
Manuela Puscas
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 …
Barbara Contreras
Sobre mantener la cordura en tiempos de cambios. Parte II. (parte I aquí) Si hay algo en lo que diferentes filosofías, cosmovisiones, sistemas espirituales y cosmologías coinciden respecto de la realidad, es que el cambio es la única certeza en este mundo. Impermanencia lo llaman en Oriente, cambio en otros lugares. Como sea que esto …
Continue reading “No Perderé Mi Agarre – Nota Desde la Conciencia”
Barbara Contreras
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, …
Continue reading “I Won´t Lose My Grasping – Note From Consciousness”
Barbara Contreras
Sobre mantener la cordura en tiempos de cambios. Parte I. Aunque vivimos nuestras vidas con un grado considerable de certeza respecto a quiénes somos y los roles que cumplimos en nuestra familia y sociedad, hay momentos en los que nos sentimos ajenos a nosotros mismos. Sentimos que o nos perdimos un poco, o que nos …
Gaby Velarde
As a Peruvian, all my life I have heard a lot of people referring to my country as “underdeveloped”, and I have always asked myself: in what way are we “underdeveloped”? I love and appreciate my country for many reasons, such as our spirituality, our strong connection with the land, our knowledge of a large …
Barbara Contreras
On staying sane in times of change. Part I. Although we live our lives with a considerable degree of certainty regarding of who we are and the roles we play in our family and society, there are moments in which our own self seems foreign to us. We either feel that we have kind of …