There is a highway with eight lanes out of suffering

Sartre once said something like: "It does not matter what Life does to you, but what you do to what Life does to you".

This morning I met a very good guy who was example of it. Life was very challenging to him, and he overcame the challenge. It made me think about the Buddha's four noble truths and the eightfold path. Yes, there is suffering. But one does not have to stay attached to suffering. There is a path out, a highway out. A highway with eight lanes. The Eightfold Path.
Once again, it does not matter what happens to you. What matters is the way you view what happens to you, what kind of intention you have, the way you talk about it, the way you act, the way you live, the way make a effort, the way you use your mind and the way you concentrate. :)

I want to live large like the sky. Nothing is unvunerable nor undestructable but the sky. Because the sky is empty. The sky is not even there. The sky is-not, always. The weather changes, the time passes, but the sky remains a giant in its emptiness. Its greatness and limitelessness can't be affected. The only obstacle between I and becoming the sky myself is who I think I am. I need to "unbecome". "I" is my prison.

An empty mind = an fulfilling life

After many years, I finally realize, not only in a intellectual level, that as important as food and hygiene are for physical health, meditation is a must for sanity and fulfillment. One could go a day on an empty stomach, but one shouldn’t go a day without meditation. Because what matters having a full stomach when one’s life is empty? Life must be fulfilling, therefore the mind has to be emptied. And that is achieved only through meditation.

Love and the end of suffering

There seems to be only one universal solution for all the problems one can come through in life, as I see. That solution is Love, unconditional love, a love for Life as Life is. That is what dettachment means to me, a love for Life in its mutability, transitoriety. A realization that mutability makes one infinite for experiencing boundlessness. Dettachment is a love for the experience of boundlessness through the challenges that life brings, a committment to grow no matter what. That is what seems to be.

Dettachment and a gun

Dettachment looks a lot like knowing how to use a gun to me. You want to know how to do it before you need to. Otherwise, you can find yourself in deep trouble. :)

Happiness is very simple.

Happiness is very simple. You only have to be simple yourself. But ,as I understand, simplicity can be very complicated for some people. So, Happiness can be complicated. :)

Dark times? End of the World as we know it? - December.21.2012

People say that dark times are coming over humanity on December.21.2012. What should I do as a Zen practioner?
The answer that I found to myself is to keep working on myself, becoming a source of light. Only when the night comes is that one can see the stars. A star does not depends on anything else to generate light. Stars generate their own light. They iluminate themselves and others, looking for no reward. That is what I feel about Zen. Zen, in my personal opinion, is all about becoming an independent source of light for oneself and for all beings.