Buddhas Teachings

Our new generation, from teenagers to young adults, is facing tremendous pressure from society and it creates a lot of stress and anxiety. How does one handle it?

Needless to say, raising a family is a very challenging responsibility and every little guidance helps. This episode is my little two cents guidance.

Money can help fix the necessity of life but money cannot buy true peace and happiness of life. The only way to cure the mental suffering is to understand what our mind is.

How do you cultivate compassion for yourself and others? How do you forgive someone?

How can Buddhism benefit your life? This is the key, the bridge that takes you to the other side of your emotional (ego) mind.

Fear and worry destroy our happiness. What is fear? Why are we worried?

What troubles you? Understand what that is and you can be happier.

When there is self there is death to self. Non-self is deathless but don’t just take my words for it, investigate it for yourself.

Understanding the “I” that creates your emotion. What is that “I”?

Our mind sprouts from different kinds of seed that generate different kinds of feelings. Understanding how those seeds grow are crucial to our peace of mind.

Continuing from part 1, episode 28, this talk is about our emotional mind, our part of the mind that runs the world.

We all have two minds operating together seamlessly like one. I am breaking it down here for you so see how the two works together. This another way of looking at our mind.

People have harmed you, people have hurt you, how can you have love or compassion for them?

The infected mind is happy, mad, sad, upset, angry, . . . Disinfect your mind.

I can’t have peace of mind, I have tried meditations but it only helps temporarily. How can I control my mind?

Desire leads to suffering. What about good desires? Desire to do good. Do you need to have desire to do good? How do desires and attachments work?

Depression has many sources. Will try to cover some.

Anger anger goes away, do not come back any other days.

Comparing and judging are the activities of the human mind. We must keep watch of this activity.

Many have suffered broken relationships, have problems with immediate family members or spouse that is totally avoidable.