Category: Mindfulness
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How Detachment Can Make You More Happy, Wealthy, and Admire
Do yourself a favor: stop getting attached to these three things. Clinging to things has its advantages. But like coins, it has two sides. The b-side of attachment is jealousy, obsession, pain, guilt, longing, depression, living death, and all those things that make you call your ex at 3 AM and hang up as if doing…
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As You Awaken, the More “Unsexy” Your Life Becomes
(At least the mundane one.) I’m 13 years old. I’m at the bus station in Salamanca. I put my hand in a machine like the one in the movie Big. I get a little piece of paper that says: “You will have an interesting life, but you will be poor.” 🙁 I take the bus with the…
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Soji, the Japanese Habit to Transform Your State of Mind
The Buddhist Monk practice that (if you apply) can change your day for the better. My Youtube feed seems to have Diogenes: I log in and get a pile of videos full of sh*t. My Twitter feed seems bipolar: one day, it’s right-wing, and the next, it’s left-wing. It’s vegan and carnivore, environmentalist and denialist, Buddhist,…
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Four Subtle Signs Good Things Are Ahead of You
#4- Serendipities start to happen all over the place. Things can’t go wrong all the time. At some point, your luck has to change. And you know that. But sometimes, it takes so long… You don’t see the emergency exit from the tunnel you’re in. And you get overwhelmed. I can feel it, I’ve been there…
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The Best Pearl of Wisdom Thich Nhat Hanh Let Slip During an Interview
Real wisdom for today’s life. There are moments in life when nothing happens. And moments in which all of life happens in an instant. And that happened to me when I listened to the interview that Thich Nhat Hanh gave with Oprah. In it, this almost centenarian monk talks about mantras, uniqueness, and the meaning of…
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Three Disturbing Life Lessons For Not Giving A F*ck And Mastering The Art Of Letting Go
Free yourself from your attachments. The more you let go, the happier you’ll be. But it’s easy said than do it. Maybe, if we understand the benefits of letting go, we will take the practice of detachment more seriously. And there are tons of benefits to mastering the subtle art of letting go. It makes…
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Three Disturbing Life Lessons I Learned From the TAO That I Wish I Had Known in My Twenties
Learn them before it is too late. I will do what Lao Tzu did to me with his book Tao Te Ching: blow your mind. Lao Tzu shared the world with Confucius; he lived between 551–479 B.C. I know he was a civil servant who cared for a small kingdom’s archives. And then, he became a…
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Three Zen Advice for a Happy Life
#3. Be aware of your power and do not use it. Sometimes the world can be a complicated and hostile place. And that’s why it’s often best to change. Changing your way of facing the world is challenging but much more achievable than changing the world to suit you. I changed thanks to Zen, and now…
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Everyone Suffers — You Are Not a Unicorn
Here is what I think about when I feel bad, and it makes me feel better. Imagine you’re not a person anymore. You are a Sunny day at the beach. As a sunny day at the beach, you have people having fun on your sand. People scuba dive in your waters, and many surfers on your…
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The Most Disturbing Piece of Advice I Received From My 92-year-old Grandfather Before Leaving This Earth.
One of life’s great truths that no one tells you about until it’s too late. The most unsettling advice I received from my 92 years old grandpa before he left this earth was, “Stop pretending to be. Just be.” At the moment, I didn’t get it. But with ye pass of the years, I unpacked that present…