Does how we view others come down to what we want out of life? If our main interest is in worldly enjoyments and achievements – for example we crave wealth or accolades – others can be in our way because they seem to be the competition or taking up our resources. There is only so much pie to go around, and we’ll develop attachment for those who help us get…
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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…
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,…
There is a little bear who lives opposite me. When i first saw him, at dusk, I didn’t see anyone with him and I couldn’t…
I was very pleased when my last family of foster cats – all five of them, mom and babies – found homes with Buddhist practitioners…
In the last article on Buddha and the Brain, I quoted from How to Transform Your Life on how our body and mind are different…
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…
As mentioned in this article, Maynor was tortured and murdered in the Honduras aged 19, trampled by drug wars he had nothing to do with.…
Several people have told me that they found the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once quite chaotic and hard to keep up with. Some cursory…
A guest article by Jan J, a long-term Kadampa Buddhist practitioner. Here are some experiences that remind me how the hidden truth of karma is…
Impermanence
My good friend Sue is currently in hospice. Please pray for her.…