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…
I’m going to assume for the moment that we’re not going to blow the entire planet up just yet, and that we still have some…
9.5 mins read. Setting some time aside for a relaxing meditation session every day, even 10 or 15 minutes, is likely the quickest and most…
Yesterday I met Steve, recently evicted from his mobile home and locked out from his possessions for no longer earning enough money from eBay to…
In this fifth article on Tantra, following on from this one, I’m going to describe a meditation I like to do on transforming my enjoyments into…
A guest article by a modern Buddhist and full-time worker who aspires to become an actual Mahasiddha soon. Realized teachers of Je Tsongkhapa’s tradition have…
Some of you may remember the inappropriate attention I paid to the supposed theft of two bikes two summers ago… bikes that turned out not…
Where do catastrophes really spring from? Hurricanes, earthquakes, accidents, illnesses, etc? The COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, for example, do you remember that?! (It was only 3…
It might be tempting when faced with the day’s headlines — suffering, and more suffering — to go to the extremes of either freaking out…
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Guest article. I put out the following question on Facebook, receiving replies from all…