Gavril Nikolaev
“When you find the mind judging, you don’t have to stop it from doing that,” Jon Kabat-Zinn said while contemplating seven meditation tips to quiet your mind. “All that is required is to be aware of it happening. No need to judge the judging and make matters even more complicated for yourself.” But the … Read more
“Once we let go of the things that don’t matter, we are free to pursue all the things that really do matter,” Joshua Becker wrote in his book about five essential benefits of minimalism. Yet many of us keep clinging to things we don’t need and people who keep us from the life we want … Read more
Can you be an atheist and a Buddhist? From what I’ve read, I can tell you that seeking an answer to this question will surface two groups of people – those who’ll tell you that it’s possible and those who’ll tell you that it’s not. Among the former is Stephen Batchelor, the author of … Read more
What are the five aggregates? In Buddhism, they are the building blocks that we typically use to construct our sense of self. The Buddha classified the constituents of body and mind into five categories known as “the five aggregates of clinging”: form, feeling, perception, volition, and consciousness. In his book Satipatthana: The Direct Path … Read more