So, this was humbling … All packed and ready for the airport, my cab driver was running ten minutes late, and then spent another five minutes waiting for me outside of someone else’s house halfway down the street. I had calculated my journey based on the assumption that this taxi company is usually early, not late; and now found myself mildly irritated as I ran up to his car to…
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I was back at Bear Creek the other day (not that you can go back & step in the same river twice), and it was occurring to me that it never ever stops flowing. It is relentless.…
I was standing today on the empty grassland that was once the Homestead of the Berons family, with a sign inviting me to imagine for a moment “what life was like” for them? I can imagine that…
When you are dreaming at night, do you miss your waking world? Do you even remember it? We are so invested in this life and all its details whenever we are awake, but it goes away every…
I’m sitting in a corner coffee shop in Manhattan on this freezing clear day, struck as one is by the unstoppable (except by COVID) 24-hour activity on just one of the (so I read) 12,000 intersections of…
Compassion and rejoicing can cover every variety of human experience. There is always something good we can be doing. If others are suffering, we can develop compassion. If they’re doing well, we can rejoice, or feel joy,…
PREVIEW CLIP Here is a gift for you all for the holidays! If you’re feeling overwhelmed with all the external activity and chit chat, or alternatively missing company this year, see if you can get some space…
Geshe Chekhawa, famous Kadampa master, told us how we could measure our success in training our minds: “Always rely upon a happy mind alone.” This…
It is that up-in-the-air time again, when between recovering from the same-old, same-old hectic holidays and looking lugubriously ahead to the same-old, same-old January treadmill…
It seems to me that one major reason we get grumpy, irritated, depressed, or angry is if we feel that our happiness or freedom are…
A guest article from a Kadampa practitioner in New York who is determined to start the New Year right … everyday. 6 mins read Well…
In this fifth article on Tantra, following on from this one, I’m going to describe a meditation I like to do on transforming my enjoyments into…
This article is published in celebration of the Grand Opening of the Sixth Temple for World Peace — in Malaga, Spain, June 2022. The English…
In the Vajrapani teachings in 2008, Geshe Kelsang said: Milarepa said to…
In this article I was talking about changing our thoughts to get past the grasping…
A guest article by a modern Buddhist and full-time worker who aspires to become an…
The mirror Another example for helping us shift our perspective from the perceived to the…
I know this is old news but it is a classic and classics can be repeated… See if you can watch it without smiling. It…
Another guest article from our Kadampa working dad. The rest can be found here. I believe our job as a parent is to become irrelevant!…
Here is a timely story from Eileen, aged 91, which illustrates the last article on Kadampa Life… …
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Society
Who around here couldn’t use some support? So I wanted to say…
Impermanence
Naimah Hassan lived an inspiring life and faced her final illness and…
Self Confidence
6.5 mins read. Here is a quick article to share something that…
Buddha nature
On the last day of the recent Kadampa Summer Festival, the life story of…