Articles for Mind

The hereditary nature of happiness

There are methods in buddhist practice devoted to cultivating loving kindness and compassion. Here, the meditations try to generate all pervading sense of benevolence, a state in which love and compassion permeate the entire mind.

The goose has never been in the bottle

Zen is not a religion, not a dogma, not a creed. Zen is not even quest, and enquiry, it is non philosophical. The fundamental of the Zen approach is that all is as it should be, nothing is missing. this very moment everything is perfect.

An Enlightened Tribute to J. Krishnamurti

in another discourse, Osho says: The death of an enlightened being like J. Krishnamurti is nothing to be sad about, it is something to be celebrated with songs and dances. It is a moment of rejoicing. His death is not a death. He knows his immortality. His death is only the death of the body. But J. Krishnamurti will go on living in the universal consciousness, forever and forever.

Can you change the world from your living room?

Highly emphatic people recognise that by words and pictures offer only second hand experience rather than the real thing, they deserve to be taken seriously, and not dismiss as little more than ' empathy lite.' Why? because art has a long and distinguish history, going back centuries, of kicking our empathic selves into action, be it for the struggle against child labour or the anti war movement.

Thinking takes you away from reality

A thinker is never here and now, he is never in the present, he is always somewhere else. A meditator is always here and now, he is nowhere else. That's why thinking is the only barrier in meditation. You have to become aware and by and by the more you become aware, the more you stop cooperating with thinking.

We live miles away from Heart and more from Head

So, the second point that I want to explain to you is that life should be distributed throughout the whole body; it should be equally distributed in all parts of the body. Life is not merely in the head, but we do all our work using just the head. 

Why Pessimism?

Pessimism may support the realism we so often need. In many arenas of life, optimism is unwarranted. At times we do fail irretrievably, and seeing those times through rose coloured glasses may console us but will not change them.

Self awareness is your ability to accurately perceive your own emotions in the moment and understand your tendencies across situations. Self awareness includes staying on top of your typical reactions to specific events, challenges and people. A keen understanding of your tendencies is important; it helps you quickly make sense of your emotions. A high degree of self awareness requires a willingness to tolerate the discomfort of focussing on feelings that may be negative.The only way to genuinely understand your emotions is to spend enough time thinking through them to figure out where they come from and why they are there. Emotions always serve a purpose. Because they are your reactions to the world around you, emotions always come from some where. Many times emotions seem to arise out of thin air and it's important to understand why something gets a reaction out of you. People who do this can cut to the core of a feeling quickly, Situations that create strong emotions will always require more thought and these prolonged periods of self reflection often keep you from doing something that you'll regret.Self awareness is not about discovering deep, dark secrets or unconscious motivations but rather it comes from developing a straightforward and hones understanding of what makes you tick. People high in self awareness are remarkably clear in their understanding of what they do well, what motivates and satisfies them, and which people and situations push their buttons.The surprising thing about self awareness is that just thinking about it helps you improve the skill even though much of your focus initially tends to be on what you do "wrong". Having self awareness means you aren't afraid of your emotional "mistakes". They tell you what you should be doing differently and provide the steady stream of information you need to understand as your life unfolds.Self awareness is foundational skill; when you have it self awareness makes the other emotional intelligence skills much easier to use, As self awareness increases, people's satisfaction with life - defined as their ability to reach their goals at work and at home - skyrockets. Self awareness is so important for job performance that 83 percent of people high in self awareness are top performers, and just 2 percent of bottom performers are high in self awareness. Why is this so? When you are self aware you are far more likely to pursue the right opportunities, put your strengths to work and perhaps most importantly  keep your emotions from holding you back.The need for self awareness has never been greater. Guided by mistaken notion that psychology deals exclusively with pathology we assume that the only time to learn about ourselves is in the face of crisis. We tend to embrace those things with which we're comfortable, and put the blinders on the moment something make us uncomfortable.  But it's really the whole picture that serves us. The more we understand the beauty and the blemishes, the better we are able to achieve our full potential.