Blog: Daily Light

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  • Stones on The Path

    There is no way to avoid the stones on your path. The biggest question is if you have the methods to carry them away and clear your path. Therefore do not provide a fish for your friends. Show your friend how to catch a fish instead. You will not feed them for a day but…

  • Daily Gratitude

    On Saturday I shared the link to our weekly Zoom call in a second WhatsApp group about spirituality and happiness. That group currently does a gratitude challenge. The challenge is very simple – find 3 things of the day to show gratitude for. Daily gratitude trains your brain to become happy. This is because you…

  • Meditation in the shadows of a tree

    Yesterday we learned an old Chinese saying: 前人栽树，后人乘凉。 – Blog: Daily Light (earthlykingdom.org). This means that we can rest in the shadows of a tree because our predecessors planted the seed of a tree. The literal meaning is that the efforts of the predecessors bring some success to the decendants. So all we do will…

  • 前人栽树，后人乘凉。

    Today we end this week and at the same time we start into a new month. As every week I summarize this week in the sunday’s daily light article. Also as every month the articles of August 2024 will find their way into a PDF document that I call a light chain. So you have…

  • 8 Months WhatsApp

    The WhatsApp group of Mindset-Evolutions was founded by Marco on 15th of September 2023. On 06th of January 2024 I joined this group. Others are not part of this group for such a long period. Therefore I thought I provide an overview about what happened the last 8 months in this group. To do this…

  • The ABC rule

    I recently invited Olivia from Hong Kong to our study group and she watched the clash we had the last few days in that group. All in all she was not too much interested in the text of that group and thought the translation effort is not worth it. Actually the concept should include a…

  • The balanced center and the snakepit

    The lessons of buddha teachings tell you to have some equanimity (~stoicism) whenever you face challenges. You can either stay in your own balanced center or you can fall into the snakepit that is prepared for you with lots of snakes that wind around your center. The snakes cannot do you any harm when you…

  • Science of Well Being

    Some time ago I did an online seminar at Yale university about the science of well being. To become happy you have to do your rewirements. Knowing is half the battle, the other half is to do it and get into action. Also important is to do some savoring. This is best done by stepping…

  • Walk in my shoes

    We have a buddhist sangha, I am part of that sangha and we share common wisdom. Although we share common wisdom and believes everyone is individual and everyone has his own perspective and his own background. Some might come into a sangha with christian background, some have hindu background, others followed no other religion before.…

  • Strong Long-Lasting Light – Jens and Odem

    There is a strong and long shining light called Jens. Original Jens of 2012 The original Jens of 2012 looks like follows. It can be found at Sparkasse Klaus, Vorarlberg, Austria in front of the building on the floor. I took the foto only minutes after this Jens image was burnt from the sky. Jens…