There are some people in your life, like Colin, with whom you feel you have a unique friendship, that you were somehow extra special to them and they to you. Then they die, whereupon the mass outpouring makes you realize there were umpteen people who felt that way 😂 Iben Clausen is one of those people. We do go back a long way – I was 18 when we met,…
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A guest article by Jan J. When I first walked into the Kadampa Meditation Centre in Brighton, it would be fair to describe me as broken. Due to recurring traumatic events and heartbreaking disappointments, I had become…
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.…
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…
I am on the road again, this time to Glasgow. The tube was delayed into Heathrow by some undisclosed incident on the tracks, and after…
Meditation is all about changing from within. Usually we’re busy trying to change things out there, but in meditation we go inward to look much…
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…
This article is published in celebration of the Grand Opening of the Sixth Temple for World Peace — in Malaga, Spain, June 2022. The English…
“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…
I’m sinking in the quicksand of my thought And I ain’t got the power anymore. ~ Quicksand As mentioned in the previous article, step one in…
Guest article. I put out the following question on Facebook, receiving replies from all over the place, and would like to give Kadampa Life’s floor to these voices 😊…
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…