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…
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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…
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Scientists say they have evidence to show that Buddhists really are happier and calmer than other people. ~ Reuters For more than twenty years now,…
January is around the corner – which means for a lot of lucky people that they get to do extra meditation because this is traditional…
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Impermanence
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Self Confidence
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Buddha nature
We can all have experiences that are transcendent, which, according to the…