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    End of Year 2020
    Doka Sensei
    • Dec 30, 2020
    • 3 min

    End of Year 2020

    This challenging year is coming to an end. A year in which suffering spread across the planet like a bushfire. The pandemic, which, like ...
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    Birthday
    Doka Sensei
    • Dec 4, 2020
    • 3 min

    Birthday

    Painting by Varsha Kharatamal Birthday is considered to be one of the most special days in everyone's life. A day accompanied by intense...
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    Zen Life during Christmas
    Doka Sensei
    • Dec 1, 2020
    • 4 min

    Zen Life during Christmas

    At this same moment you may be still running around the shops searching for the last Christmas gifts and yet another ingredient for a per...
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    Retreat - Remedy for Lockdown Blues
    Doka Sensei
    • Nov 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    Retreat - Remedy for Lockdown Blues

    This year is marked by Covid19, which forces people to face intense challenges, thus creating a feeling of isolation and loneliness. The ...
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    Competition
    Doka Sensei
    • Nov 22, 2020
    • 1 min

    Competition

    Competition, fuelled by our dualistic perceptions, results in some people being lifted onto the pedestal while others being pushed below....
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    Mental Health
    Doka Sensei
    • Nov 15, 2020
    • 8 min

    Mental Health

    From the first steps that humanity has taken until today, suffering has always been present, but with Covid19 it has additionally gained ...
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    Children in time of Covid-19
    Doka Sensei
    • Oct 30, 2020
    • 10 min

    Children in time of Covid-19

    The Covid-19 crisis has fundamentally changed the lives of all people, but the impact that is often overlooked is the additional stress t...
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    World in Burnout
    Doka Sensei
    • Oct 24, 2020
    • 3 min

    World in Burnout

    With the new wave of Covid-19 bringing Europe to the door of a new lockdown, and after eight months of impatient waiting for the old life...
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    Holistic Pandemic Measures
    Doka Sensei
    • Oct 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    Holistic Pandemic Measures

    The Covid-19 outbreak, first reported by local health facilities in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, has spread rapidly around the world a...
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    Pandemic Freeway
    Doka Sensei
    • Oct 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    Pandemic Freeway

    The current pandemic is like a crowded highway that is becoming increasingly congested, making the average person feel restricted in thei...
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    Face Masks as Act of Altruism
    Doka Sensei
    • Jul 29, 2020
    • 7 min

    Face Masks as Act of Altruism

    The conditioned mind does not like any deviations from the programmed "normal", which is why when people get exposed to long-term restric...
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    Falling Into a Disorder
    Doka Sensei
    • Jun 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    Falling Into a Disorder

    The individual and society are one and the same. When in a state of harmony, they manifest goodness and compassion. When goodness begins ...
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    The Second Wave
    Doka Sensei
    • Jun 13, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Second Wave

    a path that leads us to one place never takes us to another, no matter how long we walk.
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    Lockdown and fear of being captured
    Doka Sensei
    • Apr 18, 2020
    • 3 min

    Lockdown and fear of being captured

    Every now and then we are reminded of how connected we all are, how equal, regardless of our wealth, status, gender, religious or politic...
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    Covid-19 Pandemic and Homo economicus
    Doka Sensei
    • Apr 12, 2020
    • 7 min

    Covid-19 Pandemic and Homo economicus

    Recent discussions about pandemic and post-pandemic strategies show that impatience due to limited mobility and semi-isolation spreads as...
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    Pandemic - COVID19 Virus
    Doka Sensei
    • Mar 14, 2020
    • 4 min

    Pandemic - COVID19 Virus

    The current development of a pandemic divides people into two opposite groups. On the one hand are the people who,driven by panic, empty ...
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    The Role of Human Consciousness in Epidemics
    Doka Sensei
    • Mar 6, 2020
    • 7 min

    The Role of Human Consciousness in Epidemics

    With the Corona virus running like a wildfire across the continents, denial and ignorance are slowly turning into fear and panic. As man...
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    The Flowing Spirit and Mental Dams
    DoKa
    • Dec 13, 2019
    • 1 min

    The Flowing Spirit and Mental Dams

    Photo credits: Bahman Farzad The life of most people is like a river carrying all kinds of waste: trees and branches, leaves, plastic, de...
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    At the Abyss Edge
    DoKa
    • Dec 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    At the Abyss Edge

    No matter how much people like to read and listen about spiritual episodes that others experience, such stories are merely a subjective v...
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    Mindful Food Consumption
    DoKa
    • Nov 13, 2019
    • 1 min

    Mindful Food Consumption

    The modern lifestyle in urban areas is taking its toll and the tradition of offering food to monastics, beggars, homeless and deprived pe...
    8 views0 comments
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