Category: Brain Have Fun

Life, Death, Retirement…After Life? Part II

When wondering about what’s important in life a lot of things come to mind and make me wonder about it all.  I guess it’s usually bothering me how I am handling my values and priorities. One thing that I think about that puts things into perspective is the value of relationships in this life and …

Growth Through Relationships Part II

I remember Master Johwa talking about growing in society as opposed to trying to grow in isolation.  He said something to the extent that if you stay in isolation meditating and you feel peace, when you return to society you may find you can’t keep your peace.  He also said that living with others is …

Untangling attachments to hack the code

We associate pain with the unwelcome aspect of being and living, something to avoid if possible. After all, being used to civilizing comforts of modern life is not a crime. However, there is a time and place when I know I have to face it. Physical pain is the easiest to endure, with unequivocal benefits after each …

Plan What You Want What You Plan

Years ago I was having a wonderful summer day with my children at the Jersey Shore. We were really enjoying each others company, when we started observing some unpleasant things happening between many other parents and their children. On the beach, we saw several children who appeared lost and wandering around looking for their folks, …

Well-being / -dying / -being-born

Once upon a time, there was 2 angels up there. One day it was the left angel asked to the right one, “I heard that you are preparing to go down there soon, right?” “Yeah”, he said. “What about your 401(k), is that a robust one?” asked again the left. The right one got frowned …

Life, Death, Retirement…After Life? Part I

I remember once Master Johwa said, “People think of their life from birth to death.  As a trainee you should look at life from before birth and past death.”  It took so long for this to have deeper meaning to me.  I guess that maybe at that time I couldn’t sense a deeper existence about …