What is a day really for? I’ve seen four clips these past few days that illustrate the need to think about this if I want my life to have a deeper meaning. The first, and simplest, clip is just a stick person getting up each morning, going to work, coming home, going to sleep, getting up again, etc, in an endless loop. The endless to-do list The second is a…
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Fairly dicey times here on Planet Earth. What direction are we headed in? In the introduction to Prayers for World Peace, which Geshe Kelsang gave us way back in 2001, he says: World peace is very important;…
If we get into the habit of making mandala offerings, we swiftly purify our mind and start to see the world in a purer way. For example, we may notice that we can still love people even…
A very handsome man, to my eyes, just walked into this London café on what looked to be a date with a woman sitting here. “Lucky her,” I was half-thinking; but in the time it took for…
Lately I’ve had no time to develop a full blown article from up my sleeve, so I thought I’d share some gentle musings instead. Gratitude Simon from Eritrea told me he is in a good mood because…
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.…
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…
On Monday, the U.N. General Assembly asked the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to host a daylong special session on Happiness. As Patrick Stewart, author…
This continues directly from this article. Time off?! Also, if you actually itemize what many frenetically “busy” people do every week, my bet would be…
The other day I was at a yard sale with my neighbor and friend, more like family actually, searching for stuff for his and his…
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…
https://www.facebook.com/afluffsquad/videos/1756271331061783/ This video moved me, and has helped me generate positive minds…
The long read!!! Sorry about that. Big subject. What can Buddhists do? (Jul 2022: Wrote this before all the heat waves, fires, drought, melting glaciers,…
Buddha’s teachings on Sutra and Tantra are all designed to solve our suffering and center us in the solution. This is quite a big subject,…
8.5 mins read. You may know this already, but it doesn’t hurt to be reminded, that people the world over are all the same in…
Buddha nature
There is a little bear who lives opposite me. When i first…