Refuge is what we turn to to get rid of our suffering. We go for refuge because we need refuge,…
Browsing: Buddha Shakyamuni
Written a few years ago, updated for 2025, still relevant. Scroll down for a ten-minute meditation to help you relax…
By the way, samsara has always sucked. Buddha predicted, and Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and other Buddhist teachers have been saying…
This summer my parents asked if I could write a “short, simple guide” to answer the main questions they and…
Now we are coming up to Thanksgiving here in the United States, and apparently the word “thanks” is connected to…
With consideration for others we determine to avoid negativity because we don’t want to hurt others. (This carries on from…
When asked to sum up his lifetime’s teachings, Buddha managed with his typical genius to condense all 84,000 of them…
A million-dollar question. If we could answer this, we could get finally be free of the wretched things. In fact, this…
In this fifth article on Tantra, following on from this one, I’m going to describe a meditation I like to do…
I am just overlooking my neighbor’s magazine, as once again I cross the Atlantic. (You can’t blame me; these US…