Tag: karuna

I’m so happy I could burst!

Aren’t you happy for me? Does it make you smile, knowing that I am simply overjoyed right now? Would you like to know my secret to this tremendous happiness, and how to make it last? Acceptance (khanti) and non-attachment (nekkhamma).…

How big is your ego?

Perhaps the real question is, how big is my ego! Because if I think you have a big ego, and I have none, then I am considering myself superior in a way. That means my ego has taken over. How’s…

It begins with me

Last night, Bhante Sujatha’s dhamma talk was about the foundation of our practice. And that it is only by developing loving kindness towards the self first, that we are then able to share it with the rest of the World.…

View the mind dispassionately

As I was waking up this morning, these words kept piercing my stream of consciousness. I tried to just let this thought takes it’s course and see if some greater message was unfolding. But no further thoughts or discovery were…

Good things come in fours

In Buddhism, the four immeasurables (brahma-viharas) represent the most beautiful and hopeful aspects of our human nature. They are mindfulness practices that protect the mind from falling into habitual patterns of reactivity which contradict our best intentions. Also referred to…