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How to Make Objective Decisions
We make decisions every day; some are very important, others - less so. They range from what to have for lunch or how to spend your weekend to leaving your…
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Lessons of Meditation on a Piano Keyboard.
My meditation experience in Mooktawan was very special for several different reasons. Before this experience, I have been meditating for many years, but never very often and always trying different kinds of meditation. The year before the retreat I was more focused on the Buddhist kind of meditation and was meditating almost every day.
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Indra’s Net: Recognizing our Interdependence
Indra’s net, in Hinduism and Buddhism, is a metaphor used to illustrate the philosophy of interdependence. The image associated with it is beautiful! A net where every node is a jewel (diamonds) representing life, and each jewel reflects all the others.
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Invisible Monkeys
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Lesson 5: Make Time for Yourself Each Day
Find a space in your room to meditate, to write, to think about yourself and most important to work for a better day. Give yourself a smile.
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Lesson 4: Want, Work and Relax
The monks will tell you that it is necessary to grow out of being a slave of your desires. They eat for the sole purpose of feeding their bodies. And that’s right for them, because they choose to live happily with that premise. For other people who are not monks, desires are part of our essence. And it is by learning to control them that we can enjoy them in a mindful way.
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Lesson 3: Better to Ask for Forgiveness Than for Permission?
This quote is from a mentor I had years ago. He was the CEO of a big company who always wanted to share with the youth his secrets to enjoy life. I remember he had a big room in the house of his foundation and he call it: “Think Tank”.
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Lesson 2: Receive “the Present” of Each Day
We heard a lot in conferences, quotes, Facebook images that we have to enjoy each day, but from my experience actually doing it is quite difficult. As my master LP John from Peace Revolution said: “Is easy, if you make it easy.”
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Lesson 1: Never Stop Dreaming
Sometimes while growing up, our parents, our teachers, our friends try to affect our own dreams. Most of the time they want the best for us, but as we discover in our life paths, only us can determine what is the best for each one of us.