Serenity, Success and Failure

O My Creator! grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

The world isn’t perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance.

Embrace failure. Missteps and roadblocks are inevitable but are ultimately an opportunity to learn, pivot, and go after your goals with new perspective.

Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.

The problem in our society is that there is too much rigidity and not enough flexibility. It seems a problem of imbalance. This imbalance leads to disease, and eventually destruction and death because of the loss of resilience and flexibility.

In our society education seems, to a great extent, indoctrination, conditioning and brainwashing. Parents and teachers often just pass on their own rigid way of being to innocent children and young people.

Laughing Meditation

Laughing, seems a natural way to open the door to no-mind because if you laugh and really laugh, if you go totally into the laughing, thinking stops. You cannot laugh intensely and think at the same time. Laughing and thinking exclude each other. And for this and other reasons laughing seems liberating. It allows us to transcend the thinking mind without any effort. It allows us to enter the centre of the mandala of this book from which spontaneity can arise.

Both rigidity and flexibility seem necessary.

destruction and death because of the loss of resilience and flexibility.