Several people have told me that they found the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once quite chaotic and hard to keep up with. Some cursory Googling reveals that the directors did apparently have in mind the metaverse as metaphor for internet overload (which, let’s face it, is a significant factor these days): “Written in 2016, “Everything Everywhere” was in part a product of the contradictions and emotional whiplash of being…
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One Buddhist’s take on the movie I like starting my meditations by remembering impermanence ‘cos it focuses my mind very efficiently. First I ask myself: “If I die today, where will I be tomorrow?” Or where do…
Everything is fleeting. Life is surprisingly short. Things can and do continually disappear because they are only appearance to begin with. These thoughts are often on my mind, and not least at the moment because I’ve had…
Several friends and relatives have died in the last two months. Only yesterday my aunt Rachel died – if I had just a few words to describe her it would be as one of life’s innocents, generous…
Shortly after I first arrived in Colorado I was driving through the Rockies, nature at its finest, when out of nowhere arose an enormous apartment block. I thought I was dreaming (which I was, as always); but,…
Kadampa Buddhism started in India with Buddha Shakyamuni and Venerable Atisha and then spread to the roof of the world, snowy Tibet. Now it is here, in the rest of the world. A good friend wrote something…
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 we can do it anywhere. Up this mountain I am cat-sitting for…
8.5 mins read Do you ever find yourself attempting to fit all the jigsaw pieces of life together to make a perfect picture, the one…
Earlier today I was drinking tea and half-watching my (borrowed) cats. One of them made her happy Meow sound at me, and I felt a…
Here is the article I promised from the friend I quoted: Being a social worker makes me a better Buddhist. Being a Buddhist makes me…
My good friend Sue is currently in hospice. Please pray for her. I had the opportunity to visit Sue when she invited me to stay…
U turn on the telly and every other story Is tellin’ U somebody died ~ Sign o the Times I wonder if celebrities everywhere are…
When someone linked to this video a few days ago on Facebook, I watched it once, was mesmerized, and had to watch it again. My…
Mind-training
People’s hearts are good, but ignorance is our greatest enemy and destroys our happiness every single day. Earlier today in…