Words are very powerful. We communicate with each other through words. Words can praise or humiliate, encourage or discourage, bless or curse another individual. We need to think before we...
Category: Mindfulness prerequisites
Patience means the ability to endure good and bad, pleasant and unpleasant, pain and happiness, etc. with a calm mind. Some people are naturally patient and can persist under any condition. Also,...
Being able to be joyful at someone else’s happiness is a wonderful human value. Some call it vicariously living in that job or otherwise known as appreciative joy. The Buddhists know it as Muditā,...
The world is fast-moving. Everyone jumps from one task to another task without paying much attention to what they are doing. We often go on autopilot mode and are in a hurry to finish off our...
Five hindrances mean the mental factors that cover the mind from concentrating. They are; sense-desire, ill-will, dullness, restlessness and worry, and doubt. Initially, a meditator has to fight...
The inherent nature of a human being is to pursuit happiness. Depending on how one defines happiness, one goes on a journey to find it. Generally, a person spends a good number of years gaining...