What do you do when your meditation isn’t flowing as you wish? Sometimes we feel disconnected. All these teachings and…
Browsing: letting go
Of the three steps to overcoming our delusions taught in the mind-training teachings of Buddhism, the first is recognizing or…
Another instinctive reaction to hurt feelings (accentuated these days by 24/7 availability) is to try and distract ourselves from them,…
I’m sinking in the quicksand of my thought And I ain’t got the power anymore. ~ Quicksand As mentioned in…
We all need to be able to let go of our unhappiness. This, to put it mildly, is a Very…
I can’t believe it’s happening. So said the beautiful Ruth to me, in tears, at the wake of her fiancé…
If something doesn’t remain for even a moment — if it is gone as soon as it arises — then…
We can understand subtle impermanence in two ways. (And I am once again unabashedly going to borrow Gen Samten’s explanations on…
First, a little anecdote I wrote this about a dog and me a few years ago. “I am leaving today.…
“Time heals” because over time we forget. But why wait to forget?! Waiting passively for things to happen to us…