Lately I’ve had no time to develop a full blown article from up my sleeve, so I thought I’d share some gentle musings instead. Gratitude Simon from Eritrea told me he is in a good mood because he has three things: Health An unstressful job, by his reckoning, as he quite likes driving A shift that is almost over, lol He, like a lot of cabbies I’ve spoken to, loves…
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Guest appearance by the author of this popular article: Chronic pain & fatigue and the quiet power of Dharma. Rushing to hospital recently with severe pain and other never-before-experienced symptoms, I was admitted for same-day emergency surgery.…
True humility comes from exchanging self with others, which is a blend of compassion and wisdom. As the great mind-training practitioner Geshe Langri Tangpa describes it: Whenever I associate with others May I view myself as the…
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…
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. …
Given that we have to go to work and/or hang out and/or social media (verb yet?) with lots of other people, there are umpteen opportunities…
These days most people have heard of meditation, which is good in so far as that barrier to entry – not knowing it exists –…
Sometimes dubbed “the age of anxiety”, people are reportedly experiencing a lot of (di)stress in this modern age. Up to a third of the UK…
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?”…
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…
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 😊…
For the inner demons who do not come out into the open, or at least only in such shadowy ways that we cannot properly identify…