I can still see those smiles. Well, it was only yesterday, but I think it’ll be a while before I forget them. I hope so. Off for a hike, I stopped at Subways to buy a picnic. Trying to shelter from the heat under a straggly tree were a mother and three kids. I asked the mom if they wanted a sandwich, and then asked again in poor Spanish once…
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Perhaps it’s cos I challenged myself recently to hire a car for my niece’s wedding, drive it across London, and brave the English countryside, all on the wrong, I mean left, side of the road — a…
A friend was telling me how she came under relentless criticism earlier this year for things she really hadn’t done – in point of fact, she’d been doing the opposite (good) things instead, for years. I know…
People are just getting back from this year’s International Kadampa Summer Festival, where a bumper crowd of 3,500 received the Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments of Heruka and Vajrayogini from the NKT’s new General Spiritual Director, Gen-la Jampa.…
“Why do I need Tantra when Sutra already seems enough?” Some Buddhist practitioners are happily enjoying stages of the path (Lamrim), Buddhist psychology, and the Bodhisattva path. They wonder “”Why add another layer?” “What’s the point of…
As you may have read in this last article, In case you’re wondering about Highest Yoga Tantra, the general advice is that if we have some foundation in renunciation, bodhichitta, and the wisdom realizing emptiness, and faith…
This Summer, Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments and teachings will be given at the International Kadampa Buddhist Festival – they come around approximately every two years. If you’re mulling over attending these for the first time, and are…
Happy Vajrayogini Day 2025! This article is still just as relevant and also updated. Wonder Woman’s goal is to “restore peace to the world”. Not…
This is the last installment of the how not to worry articles. Breathing meditations can help enormously in instantly alleviating our worry, and anyone can…
Did you get a chance to try out any breathing meditation lately? It can be so very useful, indeed powerful; and we can gain some deep…
Yesterday I ran into a great guy at the Colorado Mills Outlet Mall – he was smiling so broadly as he served his customers that…
There is nothing like sitting up a mountain in clear skies to help us remember the endless space of emptiness that pervades all things; but…
Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments and teachings are given only every couple of years, usually in the UK and sometimes elsewhere, including this August of 2026…
“A giraffe, did I hear you say?!” Carrying straight on from this…
Before we get into the meditation on the mind, we need some idea of what…
By the way, during that meditation I described on the meditation on the nature of the…
The mirror Another example for helping us shift our perspective from the perceived to the…
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I seem to be here again at the Denver DMV. I thought I’d left this grimy place forever, but here I am back all over…
I’m sinking in the quicksand of my thought And I ain’t got the power anymore. ~ Quicksand As mentioned in the previous article, step one in…
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