I really like Carnival! More the traditional carnival of the small villages of my childhood than the one we imported from Brazil, but it is, in any case, a time of fun, of joy that , by observation, always brings me a moment of reflection. We complain about the masks that adults use every day, […]
Radiance sutras, translated by Lorin Roche
There is a place in the heart where everything meets.Go there if you want to find me.Mind, senses, soul, eternity, all are there.Are you there?Enter the bowl of vastness that is the heart.Give yourself to it with total abandon…Once you know the waythe nature of attention will call youto return, again and again,and be saturated with […]
Activity in February | Portugal
This month was quite intense and rewarding, with the opportunity to meet interesting people and share what we are passionate about. He finished another module of Mindfulness for Business in the ISEG MBA and we participated in two company programs in collaboration with Porto Business School. We were present at the Executive Bootcamp in Porto […]
Conscious eating: cultivating mindfulness with food
Broadly, we define mindfulness as the ability to pay attention to the present moment with curiosity and without judgment. This “mindful attitude” applies to different areas and moments of our life, allowing us to focus on the experience of the moment, making it possible to be more aware of the impact of that experience on […]
The Bowl
A monk told Joshu: “I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.”Joshu asked: “Have you eaten your rice porridge?”The monk replied: “I have eaten.”Joshu said: “Then you had better wash your bowl.”At that moment the monk was enlightened. […]
Pope Francisco | Only by educating people to a true fraternity will we be able to overcome the “culture of waste”
(Video in Italian with subtitles in English, Portuguese and Spanish) More videos in our YouTube Channel “How wonderful it would be if fraternity, such a beautiful and at times inconvenient word, were not simply reduced to social work but, became instead, the default attitude in political, economic and scientific choices, as well as in the relationships […]
Thanks to life, by Violeta Parra
Thanks to life that has given me so much Gave me two stars and when I open them Perfectly distinguishing between black and white And in the high sky, the starry background And in the crowd, the man I love. Thanks to life that has given me so much Gave me hearing, which in all […]
The old man and the happiness
An old man was living in a small village. Neighbours were tired of him. He was always sad, constantly complaining, always in a bad mood. The longer he lived, the viler he became and the more poisonous his words were. People did everything it was possible to avoid him because his misfortune was contagious. He […]
Waiting for the wind, by Ndalu de Almeida (Ondjaki)
There is in the silence of the airan authorized peace…a lyrical murmurin the renaissanceof every moment.The bird plays between a whistle noteand a breath of wind.The butterfly falls asleep — enchanted.(…)to have peacewe need to walk the silence. – Ndalu de Almeida (Ondjaki) […]
Johnson Semedo | Everything that happens around us is our responsibility
(Video in Portuguese, subtitles in English and Spanish) More videos in our YouTube Channel It doesn’t take much to be happy. It doesn’t take much to help others. Sometimes there are things that happen here beside us and we pass by and we don’t give them the slightest importance. But everything that happens around us is […]