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…
By Clare Morin Recently I had the luck of being invited onto France Roy’s new podcast, Buddha Buzz where he talks to Kadampas from all…
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…
8 mins read The other day I heard about a study in which psychologists asked a bunch of regular people how many of their thoughts…
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…
This is the final installment. For the first two installments, see Five ways to deal with criticism and Five ways to deal with criticism, part…
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,…
Impermanence
I want to explore over a couple of articles what Buddhists think…