A guest article The Walk for Peace, which has captured the imaginations and hearts of millions of people, ends today in Washington DC. In this guest article, Jan Jemson describes this walk and then shares how it has impacted her and others. We would love to hear what you have to say in the comments. The background The Walk for Peace is a long-distance pilgrimage in the United States taken by Buddhist monks from the Hương…
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One of the things I’ve been thinking I’ll miss about Colorado is the endless space. It may be just “karmic wallpaper”, as a Buddhist nun friend helpfully put it; but the skies are huge, the windows are…
Some time has elapsed since I started talking about the emptiness of time, but there is only now, and now is the time. So here we go, carrying on from this: Wherever we go, there we are. …
Someone sent me an article this morning with this title, which I have shamelessly stolen, and the byline: A single act of kindness reminded me that, despite so much evidence to the contrary, the better angels of…
Hello everyone, happy holidays. Talking of which, I was contemplating this prayer the other day, one of the four immeasurables: May no one ever be separated from their happiness. This is often explained as referring to the…
Give me a dollar for the number of times I’ve been asked in the last ten or so years, “Is there an app for that?” And the answer’s always been a sad something along the lines of,…
Hello. I haven’t posted lately ‘cos I’ve been pretty busy with stuff you might well hear about at some point. But today as I was swimming laps – following the advice of seemingly all my friends to…
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;…
In Buddhism, we train to solve our own and everybody else’s problems through compassion and wisdom. This is a bit different to the usual way…
Interesting or alarming factoid someone just sent me: “The average American spends nearly two and a half hours a day “dreamscrolling” – looking at dream…
Karma is a natural law that governs us, like the law of gravity. It’s not the same as fate or predestination because we can change…
Stumbling into an article called “Is Luck Real?”, I got thinking about one of my favorite things to think about, which is karma. (Here is…
Does karma make things our fault? No. It’s not the self of this life that’s primarily at fault for the bad stuff that happens to…
Impermanence
Recently two of my old friends lost their beloved husbands to unexpected…