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…
This is related to the article, Meditation in the Pursuit of Happiness. Do you or any of your friends have any of the following symptoms…
The other day I was at a yard sale with my neighbor and friend, more like family actually, searching for stuff for his and his…
6.5 minutes read In this recent article on the absorption of cessation of gross conceptual thought, Emergency aid for a troubled mind, I talked about the…
Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments and teachings are given only every two years, either in England or elsewhere, including this August of 2023 at the International…
This article is published in celebration of the Grand Opening of the Sixth Temple for World Peace — in Malaga, Spain, June 2022. The English…
This is the second guest article from our Kadampa Buddhist dad, who has five young kids and a very busy job. The first is Kadampa…
By Clare Morin There are moments in our meditation practice where we get a glimpse of our mind’s potential. Our otherwise incessant mental chatter ceases…
If you’ve ever wondered what meditation is all about and how it’s possible to do it, especially in a very busy life, or if you…