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Is my suffering our suffering?
Is my suffering our suffering? Commentary by José Parés Pérez, Concepción, Chile. Human beings cannot be individualistic. We are conceptually and biologically interdependent. I am simply because others have been. OTHERS gave me the opportunity to BE. Throughout...
In reactions – does fear choose my responses for me?
In reactions - does fear choose my responses for me? Contribution by Isabel Hernández Negrín, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. We know that fear is something that helps us to survive. It is a response to danger that helps us to confront it, by fighting or...
Is a life of wandering wrecking my life?
Is a life of wandering wrecking my life? Commentary by José Parés Pérez, Concepción, Chile. Wandering is one of those words that has a great quantity of synonyms in the Spanish language. It is probably due to the fact that we have an enormous number of ways of...
Do I feel like an adversary of those who do not share what I believe?
Do I feel like an adversary of those who do not share what I believe? Contribution by Isabel Hernández Negrín, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. Generally we have a blind faith in what we think and therefore believe that it is others who should change their way of...
Does my inner peace prevent me from living in tension with others?
Does my inner peace prevent me from living in tension with others? Commentary by José Parés Pérez, Concepción, Chile. I quite often use the expression “my inner peace” in these reflections and, in this particular case, I consider that it is necessary to explain...
Is a vision of desire an image of hope?
Is a vision of desire an image of hope? Contribution by Isabel Hernández Negrín, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. Desire implies yearning, fancying, aspiring to something, whether it is a personal quality (intelligence, beauty, recognition) or material objects...
Are wishes to BE an attack on a future that does not exist?
Are wishes to BE an attack on a future that does not exist? Commentary by José Parés Pérez, Concepción, Chile. The genii of the lamp, from the stories we learnt when we were little, was a clear sign in our minds of the possibility of having something that we did not...
Does self-KNOWLEDGE self-TRANSFORM me?
Does self-KNOWLEDGE self-TRANSFORM me? Contribution by Isabel Hernández Negrín, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. Probably, more than once, we have had to go to a place for the first time. To do it we can ask someone else to take us, and then that person deals...
Do I feel worthy of being loved?
Do I feel worthy of being loved? Commentary by José Parés Pérez, Concepción, Chile. One of the first things I noticed, when I started practising attention to the present, was that I felt more and more important every day, I felt that I valued myself more, as if I was...
Does the present moment treasure the WHOLE of life?
Does the present moment treasure the WHOLE of life? Contribution by Isabel Hernández Negrín, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. We are so used to remembering and to imagining future situations that we act as if the past and the future really exist, as tangible...
Is lying to myself toxic?
Is lying to myself toxic? Commentary by José Parés Pérez, Concepción, Chile. What is lying in this context? Behaving in a way that is at odds with the reality of what we are. If we do not know what we really are, we are just ignorant. But if we know or suspect...
Is it healthy to live according to your needs?
Is it healthy to live according to your needs? Does reality fit the facts or our interpretation of the facts? Contribution by Isabel Hernández Negrín, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. In the example we are dealing with, necessity is defined as: a lack of...