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 Due to recurring traumatic events and heartbreaking disappointments, I had become numb and emotionally withdrawn. Looking back, I can see I was existing in something similar to the animal realm, functioning merely to meet my responsibilities as a single mother. I had to keep…
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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…
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…
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…
Earlier today I was drinking tea and half-watching my (borrowed) cats. One of them made her happy Meow sound at me, and I felt a…
If you’ve ever wondered what meditation is all about and how it’s possible to do it, especially in a very busy life, or if you…
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…
7.5 mins read. Sitting in my new PJs this bitterly cold December morning, about to start my meditation, I was wondering how can I imagine…
https://www.facebook.com/afluffsquad/videos/1756271331061783/ This video moved me, and has helped me generate positive minds…
There are two complementary ways to approach this subject of emptiness (carrying on from here). One is understanding that things don’t exist from their own…
I wrote this on the occasion of the Boston bombings, but the technique for transforming senseless tragedy into spiritual insight applies to everything that is…
8.5 mins read. Often when things go wrong in our lives, we cast about for someone to blame and/or conclude that life is unconscionably unfair.…