Guest appearance by the author of this popular article: Chronic pain & fatigue and the quiet power of Dharma. Rushing to hospital recently with severe pain and other never-before-experienced symptoms, I was admitted for same-day emergency surgery. I hope the spiritual tips I followed below are helpful to you, too, if you ever find yourself in a similar situation. I’m a Buddhist, but I think these tips can be adapted…
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True humility comes from exchanging self with others, which is a blend of compassion and wisdom. As the great mind-training practitioner Geshe Langri Tangpa describes it: Whenever I associate with others May I view myself as the…
Does how we view others come down to what we want out of life? If our main interest is in worldly enjoyments and achievements – for example we crave wealth or accolades – others can be in…
A guest article The Walk for Peace, which has captured the imaginations and hearts of millions of people, ends today in Washington DC. In this guest article, Jan Jemson describes this walk and then shares how it…
One of the things I’ve been thinking I’ll miss about Colorado is the endless space. It may be just “karmic wallpaper”, as a Buddhist nun friend helpfully put it; but the skies are huge, the windows are…
Some time has elapsed since I started talking about the emptiness of time, but there is only now, and now is the time. So here we go, carrying on from this: Wherever we go, there we are. …
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…
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…
4 mins read and a video Did you hear about the rescue of the 12 Thai boys and their coach? Probably, unless you were stuck…
In the last article on Buddha and the Brain, I quoted from How to Transform Your Life on how our body and mind are different…
The other day I saw a little dude with his surfboard looking disappointedly at the ocean – it was clearly his first day of vacation…
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 wrote this on the occasion of the Japanese earthquake some years ago, but Buddha’s advice still holds true. How can we help? “What did you feel…