Tag: enlightenment

Can a Person Attain Enlightenment Just by Practicing Mindfulness? – a commentary

Recently I read an interesting article by Dr. Edo Shonin “Can a Person Attain Enlightenment Just by Practicing Mindfulness?” and had a conversation with my teacher and mentor. He indicated that this article makes an important effort in bringing attention to the concepts of enlightenment and Buddhism to a broader audience. While Dr. Shonin and …

Hundred shades of ego – brighter anyway

“How do you know that your ego is not getting ahead of you?” – my friend asked me recently. Good question. I thought about it and realized that I examine my ego quite frequently, on everyday basis. I am just not calling it ego anymore, and it does not necessarily have a shameful and regretful …

Harmony Meditation Assignment

For Transformation Tuesday here is my take home test: 1. Look at the pictures to the left labeled ‘Before’ and ‘After.’ What happened? How did it happen? 2. Is there NO turning back? 3… Hint: There’s a gentle loving virtue in the world felt and delivered through me. It’s called HwanDo. It’s found at Harmony Meditation. It’s for BrainHaveFun.

Life Saving Priorities

Changing my life begins with changing my priorities. Changing my life begins with changing myself. Repeatedly. All over again. Saving my Life begins with changing my life. Living Life is finding Life, finding my Self yet again. Changing myself begins with getting my priorities straight. Once again. All over. It’s time! Excuses? Excuse me! Once again. All over. It’s …

New Year – All those Years: A Beginning

All those years. More than half my life.  So many years.  To Silver anniversary. Not quite, one day shy of: Letting go. Years of being together  -  years of drifting: Apart. Years of being an item. Sharing. Memories, laughter and tears. Years of an, oh, so precious path taken together, yet arriving at different crossroads, still. …

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 …