There are some people in your life, like Colin, with whom you feel you have a unique friendship, that you were somehow extra special to them and they to you. Then they die, whereupon the mass outpouring makes you realize there were umpteen people who felt that way 😂 Iben Clausen is one of those people. We do go back a long way – I was 18 when we met,…
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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…
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…
I’m going to assume for the moment that we’re not going to blow the entire planet up just yet, and that we still have some…
Here are two meditations you can practice at home. All you need is a comfortable chair or cushion and five to ten minutes’ free time.…
This is the latest episode of the Calm Clear Mind Podcast out of Dublin, Ireland, this time a conversation between two old friends and long-time…
7 mins read + a video Now carrying on from this conversation about Tantra. And, by the way, this is the 400th article on Kadampa…
As mentioned in the article What is Tantra, another reason Tantra is the quick path to enlightenment is because it harnesses the creative power of…
(You may want to read this article first to get up to scratch. I’ve divided the article up into two parts to make it easier to…
As mentioned in this article, Maynor was tortured and murdered in the Honduras aged 19, trampled by drug wars he had nothing to do with.…
Some time has elapsed since I wrote this article on Homs, Syria; but the question “What can we do?” seems just as relevant to what’s going on today…