Posts Tagged perception

Automn

Automn

Autumn eve — please turn to me. I, too, am a stranger.  Basho Zen is an effort to make you fully aware of your strangeness. This will give you freedom from the crowd. This will give you a sense of being yourself, a deep intensity of consciousness that you are surrounded by a strange world whe

09.12.2009 | Positive Feeling | admin | No Comments

Mindfulness

Mindfulness

Cosmic Lighthouse published a very interesting interview with Harvard Professor of Psychology Ellen J. Langer where she speaks about her new book Counter Clockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility and how mindfulness and self-responsability can lead to better health. She speaks also ab

08.26.2009 | Authors | admin | 2 Comments

Indoctrination vs. Education

There is a big difference between education and indoctrination or propaganda. The educational institutions have come little by little to use more indoctrination than education - a sad reality. The former religious dogmata have been substituted by scientic dogmata and both give a rather narrow or tun

07.30.2009 | Mental-Tools | admin | No Comments

Fixing the Attention

Fixing the Attention

So where is the attention placed in the human being? It is not a fixed point. You can say attention is the surface or the edge of awareness. Wherever we are made aware, the attention gets diverted to that point. If you can find some analogy, all the files of iron have got a power to be attracted to

06.15.2009 | Mental-Tools | admin | No Comments

Forgiveness Redefined

Forgiveness Redefined

In all religions of the world "forgiveness" plays a great role and is considered as a virtue. Abraham shows how distorted and impeding "forgiveness" is: We have to say to you that forgiveness doesn’t fit in very well with the art of allowing, because you’ve got to dig up what you’re forgivi

06.5.2009 | Mental-Tools | admin | 1 Comment