Tag: feeling
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The Art of Observing The Mind
The (untrained) mind constantly wanders from time to time. If the mind is not focused on a single object, it tends to drift to something else. For example, when we are eating, we might think about work, vacations, and other things. It is not easy to keep our focus on eating consciously. By saying “consciously,”…
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No self?
What’s the purpose of routines and all our activities? What true meaning do they bring to make life worthwhile? Personally, I’m not fond of the idea of living just by repeating the things we love and avoiding the unpleasant ones. It feels like invisible handcuffs preventing us from being free of suffering. If you continue…
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Sensual Pleasure Handcuffs
Senses enable us to experience things and generate perceptions. We love to see beautiful things. And the automatic mechanism of wanting to see them again works. Every time we have a pleasant experience through the senses (including mind and feelings), we want it to occur again. This emerging desire is like a piece of wood…
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Let go ego.
Remember the six senses? Senses enable us to experience life as human. These senses allow us to have feelings when they meet their objects. But can we control these feelings from arising? It might not be easy, but we can acknowledge feelings arise without any judgements. We can acknowledge pleasant contacts as pleasant, without any…
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Existence.
Lots of human have this question in mind: who is the first human on earth? Well, this post will not discuss the answer to that question, but discussing more on the wisdom behind it. The nature of all things is arising and passing away. Even the itchy feeling, it arises by several factors, then you…
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Impermanence
Nothing in this universe is permanent unless the impermanence itself. Everything is constantly changing. Even mountain we saw ten minutes ago is never the same as it is now. The sun that looks the same long ago loses millions of tons of mass every single second. But why does our mind play tricks in the…
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The Mountain
If you can see a mountain then you are not in that mountain (unless you can split yourself to be present in two different places at once, which is not part of this discussion ?). By observing the mountain from a distant we can see its shape. If you are in that mountain, you might…