Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants… Continue Reading
Only by stripping away irrelevant cultural and social values will we see the full spectrum of what this wisdom is in its naked form and what it has to offer our modern cultures. -Dzogchen Ponlop, Rebel Buddha: A Guide to a… Continue Reading
New Year’s Eve is a great time to reflect on your past year, and changes you would like to make for the coming year. As New Year’s resolutions are highly personal, I won’t be providing specific resolutions. Instead, here are… Continue Reading
Through a systematic, concrete, and powerful process, Discover Your Dharma reveals the Secrets to know your dharma- what is the right action to take now. -Shivani Singh, Discover Your Dharma Discover Your Dharma As Shivani explains, dharma is taking the… Continue Reading
If you spend the day spaced out and caught up in the elaborations of the conceptual mind, you are likely to do the same in dream. And if you are more present when awake, you will also find that presence… Continue Reading
All we have is the present moment. Too often, we let our thoughts steal the present by thinking about the past or future: As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people’s thinking is not… Continue Reading
We humans adapt quickly to new circumstances. Take the lottery for example- do you think you would become permanently happier if you won it today? Studies have found that recent lottery winners are in fact temporarily happier, but soon after,… Continue Reading