One reason we can never rest is if we feel that we’re only as good as our next performance. But this is not true. We are as good as all our past performances. We can build on these. If we rejoice in our previous “performances” our heart feels full – for me, it feels like I’ve already done a good day’s work and that the rest of the day is…
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Do you ever feel like there’s always more to do – that however much you’re doing, it’s still not enough? And find yourself identifying with that sinking feeling, “I am not enough. I am not good enough.”?…
Me and a couple of thousand other people recently spent a week in an architecturally award-winning Temple for World Peace in Spain learning about the so-called “Eleven Reversals”. Meditating on these regularly is meditating on the whole…
A couple of days into all this chicken stuff, all hell broke loose in Israel. Since then, things have gone from bad to worse to a hell hole, threatening to engulf the region and the world. When…
I recently spent time with some chickens in Cartama near Malaga, where I was staying in a rural house with friends and attending the International Kadampa Fall Festival at the Spanish Temple for World Peace. I fed…
Your self is fictional so you can rewrite it. The reason I’m saying this is because a friend just sent me this very interesting article: Eastern philosophy says there is no “self.” Science agrees. I think the whole…
This might be Kadam Adam’s most accessible, practical, and experiential Podcast to date, which is really saying something. The conversation serves as a very useful overview of how meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhist wisdom can help us navigate…
6.5 mins read Where on earth is there no suffering? From just a cursory look at CNN’s daily Five things you need to know to…
9 mins read Do you ever wish you had a quick fix for an unhappy mind? Like you even know what you could be doing…
Right now it may seem as though our problems are getting in the way of our inner peace. But the only thing getting in the…
The other day someone asked me: “I know we’re supposed to put others first – but I was taught that in the Girl Guides and…
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…
Today I read an alarming statistic about loneliness in people aged 13-24 and all the reasons for it, which are sad. I was thinking, “If…
Here is a timely story from Eileen, aged 91, which illustrates the…
The meditation on the nature of our own mind has many benefits, the first being…
We can start the meditation on the mind, as mentioned here, just by watching the…
Last Monday I found myself at Fort Funston in San Fran, had that vast beach…
By now many of you know that Colin Chase died on Saturday. Because it turns out that this man is extraordinary, this past week has…
Tessa Logan died today at 5am GMT. She has left a lot of friends (I am just one of them) and a very kind, decent…
Guest article. Do you sometimes feel that the problems of our world are insurmountable? We feel confused about the way forward. What are the solutions,…
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Impermanence
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Self Confidence
12 mins read. Have you felt bored or restless lately? If so,…
Buddha nature
9 mins read Meditation is now marketed as an antidote to everything…