Someone sent me an article this morning with this title, which I have shamelessly stolen, and the byline: A single act of kindness reminded me that, despite so much evidence to the contrary, the better angels of our nature are not necessarily doomed. My mother’s overnight carer Joanne Marie woke me early on Christmas Day to say that Sally was struggling to breathe. She seemed to be breathing, but also…
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Hello everyone, happy holidays. Talking of which, I was contemplating this prayer the other day, one of the four immeasurables: May no one ever be separated from their happiness. This is often explained as referring to the…
Give me a dollar for the number of times I’ve been asked in the last ten or so years, “Is there an app for that?” And the answer’s always been a sad something along the lines of,…
Hello. I haven’t posted lately ‘cos I’ve been pretty busy with stuff you might well hear about at some point. But today as I was swimming laps – following the advice of seemingly all my friends to…
I was very pleased when my last family of foster cats – all five of them, mom and babies – found homes with Buddhist practitioners who are interested in their future lives. (Nonetheless, it’s been weeks since…
Someone just told me that he’s been totally distracted away from Dharma all summer and that, notwithstanding his discombobulation and re-growing anxiety, it was only when his wife pointedly asked him “Have you meditated recently?” that he…
Apologies for the grandiose title – it’s not that I’m qualified to explain this but that I’m still in awe of the five-pronged vajras on our temple and the five omniscient wisdoms they embody. What would it…
Did you happen to make a New Year’s resolution to meditate more?! If so, here is a little encouragement to hopefully help you keep to…
Meditation is all about changing from within. Usually we’re busy trying to change things out there, but in meditation we go inward to look much…
Sometimes dubbed “the age of anxiety”, people are reportedly experiencing a lot of (di)stress in this modern age. Up to a third of the UK…
This morning I felt mildly irritated at an “official” person because they have a different idea about something than I do, and naturally that means…
There are two complementary ways to approach this subject of emptiness (carrying on from here). One is understanding that things don’t exist from their own…
8.5 mins read. Often when things go wrong in our lives, we cast about for someone to blame and/or conclude that life is unconscionably unfair.…
Impermanence
Recently two of my old friends lost their beloved husbands to unexpected…