Having awareness or Sati of the mind is a must have ingredient to reach the ultimate understanding of Nirvana. Without awareness of one's own mind is the same as walking blind folded in complete ignorance, knowing nothing of oneself.

The Buddha was the greatest doctor and his Teachings is the greatest medicine. However, it doesn't matter how effective the medicine is if the patience doesn't take it it has not effect on the patience. The cure for our human sufferings is here and available. Take it or not is one's decision.

All you have to do is open your mind and listen.

The Four Great Refuges in Buddha's Teachings are Loving-Kindness (Metta), Compassion (Karuna), Joy in others happiness (Mudita), and Equanimity (Upekha).

Loving-Kindness (Metta) is one the great abode Buddhists practice, take refuge under. The practice of loving-kindness requires a clear understanding in order to have true penetration. Otherwise loving-kindness cannot truly happens.

Our mind is the source of ALL emotions, good or bad. Whatever we feel it is always inside of us. We cannot feel good or bad outside of our mind. So this mind is responsible for our happiness, our sadness, and everything else in between. It is the NATURAL job of the mind. For most of us ordinary people, when the emotion is angry we say I am angry. We identify ourselves with the mind. Because of this our moods, our feelings, our emotions swing according to the works of the mind. One of the greatest discovery of the Buddha was that we don't need to follow this mind generated emotions when we get to understand what this mind is.

Who doesn't want to be happy? Everything we do is to be happy, if not now, soon. If not soon, it's for the future happiness. Has anyone ever stopped to ask why you want to be happy? Since we want to be happy, does that mean that we are not happy right now? Are we lacking happiness all the times? We can't be happy with just who we are?

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Fire! Fire! Fires are every where. What are those fires? Worldly fires can be divided into two groups. What are those fires?

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Suffering and Nirvana (The End of Suffering) are two of the Four Noble Truths. How are they related to each other? Can we have Nirvana without suffering?

People are conducting their lives with a sense of self in doing all the things they do. From the most mundane activities to high pitch emotions we are doing it. In the ultimate reality, Buddha's Teacings point to non-self which means there is "I" doing anything. Let's look into this further.

Having good friends is an essential part of our lives but often times our good friends turn out to be not so good. So what are the important characteristics we need to look for to have a true good friends?

Looking within is everyday practice we do to cultivate the mind. This episode describe some of the common scenarios most of us have encountered in life and how we use mindfulness to help us in those situations.