It is certainly not easy to consciously be on a path of awakening. Our lives are so filled with activities, distractions and people that lead us away from our center and our serenity. It takes a real commitment to regularly reserve time to go inside and shut the world out. …

  We are please to share with you the first video of a series that Mónica will offer in English on her YouTube channel  In this one she gives a working definition of Mindfulness. You can watch it here below:                     …

The American psychologist Tim Kasser, author of The High Price of Materialism (2003, MIT Press), and his colleagues at the University of Rochester, have highlighted the high cost of materialist values. Thanks to studies spread over twenty years, they have demonstrated that within a representative sample of the population, individuals …

Most people live their daily lives totally identified with their roles (mother, husband, sister, lawyer…) and obsessed with survival needs, acquiring possessions, assuring a good future for their children, financial security, comfort, physical appearance, information, a good social status… So involved in the superficial pursuits of the ego and samsara, that …

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a teacher, a master, a lama of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. In June 2011, Mingyur Rinpoche left his monastery in Bodhgaya to begin a period of extended retreat. Rinpoche left in the middle of the night, taking nothing with him, but leaving a farewell letter. Instead of retreating to …