A dear friend of mine is currently visiting Sri Lanka, and writing regularly about the experience on his Blog. In a most recent post, he discusses the extreme poverty of most people in that country and his observations of how…
We all know that girls just wanna have fun, and boys love their toys. But how does this apply to a student of the Buddha and Dhamma? All this talk about attachment, desire, clinging, suffering and death, would seem to…
Distraction, delusion, doubt and desire are only a few of the words that can be used to describe what happens when someone does not act in a way that we think they should. Our own mindfulness can easily become judgmental…
Just look at me right now, rushing through life like there’s no tomorrow. Well, there actually is no tomorrow, but that’s still no valid reason to operate in such a frenzied mode all of the time. Everything thing I do…
Right action can be the wrong way without skillfulness Right Action is a critical part of the Eightfold Path that the Buddha passed on to us. But often, the word “Right” can seem too finite and specific. And although the…