When we don’t know the way out of any crisis or situation, we often use our brain to think about it. Our brains, in the way they evolved, create risky models of the world to ensure our survival — what can go wrong, where will our next threat come from…

There are times, not so often, where my veganism gets into my ego. I forget that I am a vegan solely for the well being of my fellow beings and for the planet: and definitely not to boost my goodness points. In those times, I reprimand myself by consuming a…

I once saw a baby fox lose its way in the wilderness next to the lake. It was afraid of everything: food, moving somewhere else or even receiving care. It stayed curled up and didn’t move even a bit. This went on for three days. I was worried that it…

Every morning as we wake up, countless monks and nuns, from various monasteries, from various places of worship: with one purest intention, send their heart into the cosmos; with the sound of the bell, with the fragrance of incense, with the tune of the prayer: so that all of us…

There maybe someone around us who look normal externally, but who is at the verge of breaking down. There maybe someone around us who piled up so much of anger within them, that there are an inch far away from murdering. There maybe people around us, who are at the…

Despite his repeated attempts to push it onto the top, the Sisyphus’s stone keeps falling right back where he started. How can Sisyphus have peace despite the outgrowing despair and meaningless of his act? We face a similar Sisyphusian struggle too. Our habit energies push us to hate, to feel…

When we invite a bell, when we pour tea into the cup — we can think of these as mechanical acts. But one can find concentration, loving kindness and insight behind each of these acts. Whenever certain act is performed mindfully, that act becomes a way of communicating with cosmos…

We often say, “I’ll get back to you in a second, I’ll be back in a minute” and so on. Though we take more time — magnitudes of order more than one second and one minute — we still tend to say so. While we may use that phrase figuratively…