A Buddhist perspective on my personal addictions I don’t honestly know if the Buddha ever taught about addictions directly, but he certainly did teach about defilements and attachments. The Pali word kilesa means mental states that cloud the mind and…
So often I read articles and Blogs by others, and I see that Buddhism can seem extremely negative, even depressing. And I’m sure that a lot of my articles could be looked at in the same manner. So much talk…
Usually when I think of a person as a transient, I am thinking of a homeless person. But today I see that I am just as much a transient. It would appear that I have a home, but is in…
I have only been friends with one blind person in my life, and it was a very long time ago, when I was still a teenager. But I wish I had a blind friend now that I could question about…
Wouldn’t you think that after years and years of practice, that one could wake up in the morning feeling light and unfettered? Shouldn’t that be a payoff of the Buddhist practice? Well, as much as I might hope for such…