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Since our discovery and learning period from early age, we were taught, or learned about, what a nose, arm, tree, flower, dog, tiger, and everything else we know is. We learned the relationship between words and tangible or intangible things and took them as they were given to us. We were taught, “this is your nose, this is your arm, that is a tree, that is a cat, this is a shoe, etc.,” but we neither questioned those things, nor tried to find out the real definition, nature or essence of all of them. In other words, do we really know what all these things are? Do we understand them? Have we spent enough time observing, studying, and trying to understand them? And the answer is a resounding “no.” We have taken everything for granted. We know it; it works; it is there and fine; therefore, we do not have to worry about it. We have done it with ourselves, our health, behavior, emotions, body, etc. and with everything else. “That’s a tree!” “Oh, look how pretty that flower is!” “This ...

A man once asked a wise, old man, “why am I what I am?” The old man answered, “you are what you are because you do not understand what you are.” The man was confused and said, “I do not understand.” The old man replied, “what you think you are, you are not! What you do not think you are, you are!” The man was even more confused so he asked the old man to please clarify. The old man, noticing the confusion in the man, responded slowly and carefully, “what you think you are is a product of the environment and circumstances of where and how you grew up and of where and how you have lived until now, but that’s not really you. That is just an external, nonsense mental idea that you have been creating of yourself unconsciously throughout your entire life.” “So, what I am is my own creation and has nothing to do with who I really am, with reality. It is just an illusion!” asked the man. “Correct!” answered the old man. “Your entire life, you have been identifying yourself with your body,...

This experience that we are going through right now with the COVID-19 should be, at least, a very humbling experience for humanity but, if not, definitely for us individually. For centuries, religions, educators, government leaders, parents, etc. have been telling us how great and superior we human beings are compared to everything else. We have put humanity on top of everything, and throughout history, we have taken this concept to such an extreme that certain groups based on the color of skin, place of origin, religion, belief, etc., have believed that they are superior to others because they look or think differently. Just because a group of people of a certain place, or with a certain belief, color, or religion decided that they were better than another group does not mean that they are superior. This fact, the fact that we feel superior has given us the right to exploit, abuse, and even kill anything and everything, including ourselves and everything around us with the justifi...

 Subscribe  When we are talking about ourselves, about who we are, about what we commonly refer as “our lives”, are we sculptors or sculptures? Are we creators or creations? Or, are we both? We all could easily reflect about our lives and come to the conclusion that we are both. But I am not referring about our life in general; about what we have done in, or with, our lives; or what we have built externally in terms of finances, family, fame, image, profession, etc.; nor what we have accomplished professionally, artistically, or in any other way. To the contrary, I am referring to what we have built internally as us, as individuals, as human beings…who we really are inside. So, let me repeat the question more precisely: when we are talking about us as individuals, as human beings, are we sculptors or sculptures? Before you answer and to help you do it, I am going to tell you a story, which should give you a perspective on how to answer this question. There was once a m...

During this period of the COVID-19 like in any other period of our lives, one of the greatest sources of our suffering is our need to “control” everything. We do not “accept” things as they are but want them to be as we want. Consciously, but most of the time unconsciously, we do not accept what is happening around us and want it to be the way we want. For instance, when we say or think: “it is raining again” or “it’s too hot”, we are not accepting unconsciously what it is but want the day to be a nice day, whatever a nice day means for you. We do the same with people, things, locations, etc.; and we do it all the time, for everything, and do not even realize we are doing it. This is why life is so hard.  Just for the simple fact that we are trying to control everything and we do not even know that we are doing it. What most of us do not realize is that everything we are experiencing is happening inside of us, and not outside. All the stimulus from our sensorial organs and ev...