Buddhism in daily life - Mindfulness in every day tasks

Life consists of suffering Life consists of suffering, but what is important is how we deal with suffering. This way of dealing with difficulties and hard times makes the person we are and want to be....

23 Okt 20225min

Grasping for Wind No matter what we humans do, nothing will really change anything, because all being in this world is finite, transient, subject to decay. Today still young and full of strength, tomo...

22 Okt 20225min

Quality of life What do you think, how can we recognize quality of life, and if we have recognized it, can we change it, improve it? To judge the respective quality of life is possible only for each p...

21 Okt 20225min

Near-death experience A near-death experience is an experience "close to" death, that is, almost dead, so to speak. One could also express it in such a way that life itself is a continuous near-death ...

20 Okt 20226min

Time 2 The (partial) move to DengFeng brought me back into contact with civilization somewhat; a long time had passed in which I lived only according to the events in the temple, getting up, washing, ...

19 Okt 20226min

Time Time passed in the monastery, and everyday life became a sequence of habits. My master reminded me that it was my habits that would define my outward appearance, which of course would provide ins...

18 Okt 20226min

Habits and Attachments Somehow habits and attachments are connected, they also occur together. Habits are very useful to us humans because the things we do out of habit are no longer a "burden" on the...

17 Okt 20225min

What is Chan? Part 6 You are searching, otherwise you would not read my texts here, you might read about soccer, or about fashion, but not at all about Chan (Zen) Buddhism. The problem with spirituali...

16 Okt 20225min