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…
Trusting holy beings… I recently renamed the feral cat Korska “Nelson”; I figure it might help him to be named after one of my great…
Interesting or alarming factoid someone just sent me: “The average American spends nearly two and a half hours a day “dreamscrolling” – looking at dream…
This guest article from our Kadampa Buddhist dad, who has five young kids and a very busy job, is a continuation of Advice from a Buddhist…
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…
A guest article by a modern Buddhist practitioner who works full time as a manager of software development teams. Leveraging objects of desire as a…
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…
In the Vajrapani teachings in 2008, Geshe Kelsang said: Milarepa said to…
Last Monday I found myself at Fort Funston in San Fran, had that vast beach…
We can start the meditation on the mind, as mentioned here, just by watching the…
In this article I was talking about changing our thoughts to get past the grasping…
8.5 mins read. I do like this time of year – sitting in the Spring sunshine watching those moist bright green buds pop out hopefully…
I’m sinking in the quicksand of my thought And I ain’t got the power anymore. ~ Quicksand As mentioned in the previous article, step one in…
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…
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Society
7.5 mins read. I thought we’d start by looking at why we…
Impermanence
We can understand subtle impermanence in two ways. (And I am once again…
Self Confidence
Superior intention is not weakened by the kryptonite of attachment or irritation.…
Buddha nature
I’ve been watching a couple of gentle dramas unfold on the other…