Unbound Mind

The 11 Guidelines for Success and Well-being Nowadays we are in a time where everyone is talking about success and how to develop personal success. These are keywords we hear and see again and again everywhere: Succeed, achieve, build, develop, growth. However we also live in a period in history with the highest levels of depression, anxiety, stress related illness and conflict at all levels. Already young children are placed under incredible pressure to 'be better'. So what kind of success are we trying to build? What kind of world are we creating? This constant struggle to develop and control the world and life, is in itself a source of great stress and anxiety, and in the end have we forgotten how to live in harmony without life itself and the world around us? Is this one of the reasons why human beings 'consume' everything, consume  'things', each other, and the planet itself ? This vision of success is build upon conflict and strife, where mostly one pe...

< versão Portuguesa> Since time immemorial Men has searched within for a sense of personal meaning and understanding of reality. Over the last century that search seems to have focused almost exclusively in the outer material world, but as time is the greatest of teachers, to those who pay attention, slowly we see that people start to understand that such answers are to be found within ourselves, and not in mathematical rules about the material world. Already 2500 years ago the Buddha has said that the way to happiness and freedom is: "Practice Virtue, Abandon evil doing, Tame your Mind", and, "your ego-self is illusory and attachment to yourself is the root of all problems" - and in fact this is considered the very essence, heart and life force of the spiritual path and not just in Buddhism. Today these teachings I feel are of crucial importance, in a world that is increasingly selfish, materialist and that measures success by how much a person can ...

<english version> Desde tempos imemoriais a humanidade tem procurado pelo sentido da vida e por um entendimento da natureza e da realidade. Durante o ultimo século essa busca tem sido feita quase exclusivamente olhando para o mundo material. No entanto, sendo o  tempo em si o melhor dos professores, para quem presta atenção, aos poucos nota-se já que as pessoas começam a entender que as respostas a essas perguntas estarão dentro de nós, e não nas regras e formulas matemáticas que regem o mundo material. Passaram já cerca de 2500 anos desde que o Buddha disse que o caminho para a felicidade e liberdade é: "desenvolve as virtudes, abandona a maldade, desenvolve mestria da tua mente", e, "o teu eu-ego é ilusório, e o apego a esse 'eu' ilusório é  a raiz de todos os problemas"  - isto essencialmente pode dizer-se que é a essência, o coração e a força vital do caminho espiritual, e não somente no Budismo. Eu acho que hoje em dia em particular es...