There’s a lot going on at the moment. People are understandably feeling troubled: “I can’t handle this, it’s overwhelming,” because we are encountering problems we don’t see any solutions for. There may even be a yearning for everything to go “back to normal”. We can stay calmer by learning to view our difficulties in a bigger context – letting them remind us, for example, that there has never actually been…
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I don’t know if you’re like the rest of the world in having some trouble coping. It’s no secret that…
Another major benefit of getting good at concentrating is that we can make serious spiritual progress. This is important. Carrying…
This article is published in celebration of the Grand Opening of the Sixth Temple for World Peace — in Malaga,…
If we want to stay peaceful, and therewith feel good, we need to have some ability to focus our…
4 mins read. I suspect that, like me, you’d generally prefer to be relaxed. We want to chill out, unwind,…
Last Wednesday, one of my youngish housemates whom I’ve known for 20 years accidentally swallowed deadly poison in a euthanasia…
8.5 mins read. There’s a scaredy cat staying with me at the moment who I’m slowly taming with the help…
9.5 mins read. The more I hear about this war, the more angles there are, the more difficult seem the…
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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…
6.5 minutes read In this recent article on the absorption of cessation of gross conceptual thought, Emergency aid for a troubled mind, I talked about the…
What do you do when your meditation isn’t flowing as you wish? Sometimes we feel disconnected. All these teachings and meditations sound good, great even;…
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On a recent Saturday evening, I was invited to the birthday party of a dear old friend, a party filled with amiable characters from all parts of the world. Among me and my friends were S the ebullient New Ager, J her elegant French mom, I the dear Danish healer, H the kind Texan host, A the Dutch retiree with a twinkle in her eye, P her mischievous ex-Nato husband,…