Mindfulness

Use the energy of mindfulness to recognize the pain inside and hold it tenderly, like a mother holding a baby. Mindfulness is the mother. Your pain, sorrow, despair is your baby. There is no fighting. The energy of mindfulness does the work of recognizing, embracing and bringing relief. When a mother hears her baby crying, she puts aside what she's doing, goes immediately to pick up her baby and hold the baby tenderly. She may not know what is wrong with the baby at first, but the fact that she's holding the baby tenderly like this already brings relief to the baby. You may not know what the causing your pain, despair, depression, fear, but if you know how to hold that pain with the energy of mindfulness, you immediately get relief, because the energy of mindfulness begin to penetrate the energy of pain, of sorrow.

Imagine the flower in the morning. The flower is not yet open. The sunshine embrace the flower, and the energy of the sunshine begins to penetrates the flower, and an hour later the flower has to open itself to the sun. The sun is our mindfulness and the flower is our feelings. - Thich Nhat Hanh

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Stupid

When you realize that you are stupid, you are no longer be stupid.

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Experiment

Do not too timid and squeamish about your reaction. All life is an experiment. The more experiment you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Proper

Correct doesn't mean proper. I give you an example:

1. In an examination. All the candidates doing their exam as they think are correct. Some doing their exam truthfully and some waiting the answer from their friend sitting next to him/her. At the moment, they think they doing the correct/right action, but that doesn't mean proper.

2. A wife found out that her husband has an affair with other woman. You can imagine how the wife act. At the moment the wife think what is correct for her, but doesn't think properly.

3. Adolf Hitler (German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party) at that time he think what is correct for the nation, but that  does not mean proper for the nation.

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Desire and Like

When 'desire' on something, the mind when unconscious mode {loose control}. You will do anything to fulfill your desire and forget everything. When 'like' on something, the mind still conscious and at the moment you choose whether you want it or not.

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Ego and Self

The personalty of ego is afraid. They afraid to lose... afraid to change... afraid to look down on or disagree. Unconsciously, it creates own opinion and later habits. Habits lead to many behaviours - irresponsible, lying, short temper, greed, a controller etc...

Self is when you know the ego appear. You experience/understand your ego. You let your ego teach you. You know ego is dangerous and finally you tame your ego.

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Emotion

An emotional artist/writer creates a beautiful piece of work and your emotional can make you beautiful is when you use in a correct way.

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Slow food

Joshua Viertel: Slow Food USA from alldaybuffet on Vimeo.

Otaku

More than Marketing

I don't care what you're going to tell me intellectually. I don't care. Give me reptilian. Why? Because the reptilian always wins. - Dr. G Clotaire Rapaille

Read his interview.

reptilian brain - It's part of survival; it's breathing, eating, going to the bathroom.

limbic brain - emotions

cortex - that's what we suppose to be "intelligent."

Mind-shifting Everest swim

Your Secret

Your secret from Jean-Sebastien Monzani on Vimeo.

Trust

Trust on something more solid. Trust something that you can verify and can experience at that moment....

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Worthy

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

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Say something remarkable

Most people work hard to find artful ways to say very little. Why not work harder to think of something remarkable or important to say in the first place?

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