This is going to be short and sweet, hopefully like Christmas. This morning I had a simple, heart-warming experience. Visiting…
Browsing: Self-cherishing
I thought I’d look at some examples of the ghosts in the cellar, especially those we thought we had already…
One reason that compassion is our Buddha nature, I think, is because compassion is a natural response to reality. If…
People’s hearts are good, but ignorance is our greatest enemy and destroys our happiness every single day. Earlier today in…
With attachment born of ignorance we are always splitting ourselves off from our actual happiness, the happiness of our own peaceful…
Meditation should never be abstract, but grounded in our own experience. The self we normally see doesn’t exist. But it…
A dear friend emailed me during my rather paltry adventure in Denver airport. She is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer at…
The other day someone asked me: “I know we’re supposed to put others first – but I was taught that…
(Part of the series Is compassion happy or sad?) The main reason why thinking of others’ suffering hurts is due…
Sometimes our lives are so busy helping others that we get out of the habit of letting go and taking…