I was thinking the other day that perhaps it is no wonder self-hatred is a thing — if we have…
Browsing: self-grasping
I wrote this a couple of years ago in response to a large bombing, but it seems to apply even…
Do you ever feel that you have lost or are in the process of losing lots of things and people…
One reason that compassion is our Buddha nature, I think, is because compassion is a natural response to reality. If…
I seem to be here again at the Denver DMV. I thought I’d left this grimy place forever, but here…
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…
Back in this article I was surmising that the reason we don’t go for a realization of emptiness more passionately…
In a recent article I tried to explain how self-grasping and self-cherishing, and the delusions they spawn, entirely undermine our…