Inevitable enigma

      WELCOME IN THE WAY (Spanish version below)     1. Be suspicious of words   Be suspicious of concepts, official formulas and, above all, words. Sometimes, it is even the "indisputable certainties" of the different currents that are opposed to each other. If you do not take into account the fact that the words do not have the same meaning depending on the context or the situation, there could be a total misunderstanding. However, in reality there are not total contradictions, but differences in points of view that can be reconciled (a common problem occurs when the person has read a little from different teachers, since it is very difficult then to have an idea of ​​unity).   However, words can never substitute verification for experience. The instrument of the scientist or theologian is intelligence and reasoning. The instrument of the mystic and his disciple is "attention", "presence", a level of consciousness that radically tra...

  THE UNIVERSE IN A SINGLE ATOM (Spanish version below) The Dalai Lama himself took a personal journey into understanding science. His conclusion is that science and technology must be included in the education of monks. Both science and spirituality help reduce human suffering; the former acts on a physical level and the latter bolsters change in the heart and within human attitudes to reduce mental suffering. However, science needs ethics as spirituality needs to accept scientific development. Scientific materialism in its limit is a metaphysical position that brings nihilism since there is more to human existence and reality than what science currently knows. There are some relevant similarities in the way that both science and Buddhism look for knowledge: experience is above reason, which is above theory. Buddhism also accepts inference. However, science is only empirical whereas Buddhism is empirical, metaphysical and ethical since reality is wider than the empirical world. Th...

  IT DID NOT START WITH YOU (Spanish version below) Principles   Resistance to suffering prolongs pain and keeps the pain there.   Traumas are not kept in the declarative memory, which is the one accessible consciously, but in the subconscious memory, so the rational brain cannot access these memories directly and verbalize them. The problem is that when the emotions are overwhelming, the person blocks them, thus preventing the healing movement.   A non-conscious memory keeps repeating itself until it becomes conscious. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.   (Jung).     Understanding a problem at an intellectual level is not enough to produce a change; it must be understood at a visceral level.   The descendants of survivors carry similar physical and emotional symptoms (R. Yehuda).   The story with the family already began before birth: a grandmother who is 5 months pregnant already ca...