Infusing Western Life with Tibetan Buddhist Compassion
For 65 years I have been forgetful and unaware, but not for one moment have my intentions and actions ceased to bring forth effects on others, as well as in my own mind. Today is the anniversary of Siddhartha’s first teaching after attaining Buddhahood. A day of great karmic effect if and when one is … Read more
Your Eclipse goggles. Once important, now obsolete. It makes no difference how many you’ve got, where you bought them, how much you paid or how stylish they were. Toss them away . . . they are now useless. *** Your delusions of self and all that come with them. No longer needed. They have been … Read more
The Tibetan Buddhist path. Beautiful, Empowering. Challenging. Why challenging? Because it is difficult to learn something(s) new that will change you into someone who disagrees with the person you used to be. We’re just not “arranged” for that. Knee-jerk rejection and our lack of curiosity about the unknown are forms of self-defense. We’re defending the … Read more
By just about any survey, algorithmically conducted or informally conversational, when persistent human fears are considered, it is Dying and/or Death that usually appears near the top of most lists. Perhaps this is experienced by some in a very direct way: as fear of the unknown, or of a great and final pain; or for … Read more
(Dharma) Bread Crumb #2 Consider the difference between feeling sad and being sad . . . and then choose the one that will best enable you, upon waking up in the morning, to cross the bedroom, open a window and let the sweet breeze in . . . letting it touch you all over your … Read more