The first step in fixing yourself is to understand that you are not broken. You may be hurt, down-hearted, alone, depressed, or angry, but you are not broken. Yet still you may struggle, as I do, with feeling as though…
How to fix yourself
Tag: attachment
How am I different?
I don’t think that most of us can avoid attachment to the people we love. And I’m not sure that we should try to.
The high cost of ownership
And what do we truly own? Definition of OWN: belonging to oneself or itself — usually used following a possessive case or possessive adjective. How many times a day do we view or even verbalize our ownership of people, places…
Creating peaceful awareness
Is awareness always present or is it gradually developed? The process of becoming more aware is the first step in developing mindfulness. So long as this awareness occurs with understanding and acceptance. But how often do any of us gain…
Can a Buddhist have fun?
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…