The Sanskrit word Śūnyatā is usually translated in English to “Emptiness”. This is a major Buddhist concept, and I would like to try to explain it here and make it as easy as possible for you to understand it, but [...]
When we struggle with overweight issues and we are determined to lose weight, we often seek the advice or direct help of dietitians and / or coaches, which is not bad at all. But we rarely think about seeing [...]
After meditating about the questions we asked in the first part of this article, you must recognize that our views and feelings about ourselves and our parents are not only highly related, but can also be very exaggerated, not to [...]
Imagine you are alone in front of a mirror, and try to think about how you feel. How is your relation with yourself? What do you see when you look into your own eyes? Do you feel love and [...]
Loneliness is obviously becoming one of the main public health challenges of our time. New studies are showing the devastating effects loneliness can have on our health. Recently, governments started to seriously tackle the problem of loneliness, notably with [...]
After the trees lost all their leaves, and we learned from fall, here we are in the heart of the winter. The days got much shorter than the nights, and the wind, the cold and the rain made their [...]
The fact that all things are impermanent is an essential concept in Buddhist psychology and in Buddhism in general. As we will see through examples given in this article, realizing impermanence can be a very interesting antidote to depression [...]
We often link our feelings of happiness to some exterior events or circumstances in our life. For example, we get reunited with a dear friend and as an effect we get happy. Or we get an extraordinary new job [...]
Anxiety can be found in every human being. Just consider this example: You go back to your house, you find the door open and drops of blood on the floor. How would you feel? In this situation most of [...]
In his book "Being Peace" Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh tells an interesting story: There is a Zen story about a man riding a horse galloping very fast. Another man standing on the side of the road calls out to [...]
