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. …
8 mins read The other day I heard about a study in which psychologists asked a bunch of regular people how many of their thoughts…
Deciding to learn meditation is a really great new year’s resolution. Anyone can learn, if they want to. Meditation means becoming familiar with positivity and…
Recently the New York Times did another article on the benefits of meditation – along the lines of how scientists are finding it makes your…
Carrying on with even more benefits of transforming enjoyments into the spiritual path with the help of the meditation on transforming enjoyments … Bliss destroys grasping…
I wanted to say a bit about what Tantra is within the Buddhist tradition, and how accessible it can be. Buddhist Tantra is known as the “quick…
Buddha’s teachings on Sutra and Tantra are all designed to solve our suffering and center us in the solution. This is quite a big subject,…
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…
It might be tempting when faced with the day’s headlines — suffering, and more suffering — to go to the extremes of either freaking out…