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Student: What is the right way to uplift myself? Master: First, set the right goal.  Second, you need motivation.…

Zen has the idea of the beginner's mind - a mind that is fresh and alive. Sometimes I wonder how you can practice beginner's mind when meditation is all about focusing on one thing only - it seems a very stagnant way of using the mind. One would at first think to practice beginner's mind is to keep it moving, keep everything "new". But actually the best way is just the opposite; it is only through repetitiveness that we…

Soldiers guarding the border at the order of an ignorant emperor, Holding their ground with determination and bloodshed; Guns ring and the sound of thunderous explosions filling the sky, Killing one another, not recognizing that all belonged to the same clan.      

Imagine that you have one negative thought. Gradually, you will generate more and more negative thoughts. So, the first negative thoughts is like a newborn baby. The newborn is continually fed, and…

The Mind is like water that can either give a ship buoyancy or sink it. When we have the ability to generate the thoughts we desire, we are able to bring forth the life we want. When we lack mastery over our mind, we become the victim of our own mind functioning.…