Dear Friends: “The offering of light is a means of dispelling the darkness of our own ignorance, giving rise to clarity and wisdom” – H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy! <!
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Words of Wisdom for April 10, 2024
April 10, 2024 by
Dear Friends: “When we clearly realize that the source of disharmony and misery in the world is ignorance, we can open the door of wisdom and compassion.” – Alan Wallace Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: Ethics […]
Words of Wisdom for March 09, 2024
March 9, 2024 by
Dear Friends: What does it mean to be somebody practicing at this time, at this moment? How can we each uproot the ignorance of who we are that accompanies each of us on our own specific journey? The Buddha speaks to the impact of greed, hatred and ignorance; how these have such capacity for harm. […]
Why I Don’t Want to be Called an Ally
November 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
by Sister Mai Ally From the moment i first heard the word, i got allergic to it…an ally allergy. Why? Well, the first thing is that in my french brain, “les alliés”, as we call them, are the good Americans and British soldiers coming to save us from the evil Germans. Word of war, violence, […]
Emotional Blind Spots
August 18, 2017 by Leave a Comment
yada Denial is far trickier than simple ignorance. It isn’t the inability to perceive information but the astonishing ability to perceive information while automatically refusing to allow it into consciousness. Our minds don’t perform this magical trick without reason. We only “go blind” to information that is so troubling, so frightening, or so opposed to […]
The Buddha
July 26, 2017 by
For the past five or six weeks, I have been watching episodes of The Buddha on Netflix. The series was produced by the famous Indian producer B. K. Modi. In truth, it is a Bollywood movie in 54 episodes. The costumes and jewelry are extraordinarily beautiful, but I can’t same the same thing about the […]
What do the Vaquita Porpoise, Jaguar and Elephant Have in Common?
August 9, 2016 by
What do the Vaquita porpoise, jaguar and elephant have in common? All of these animals are in immediate danger of extinction due human causes of over fishing, loss of habitat from deforestation and farming, interaction with human fishermen and farmers, and worst of all, pouching and climate change. Last Sunday, I witnessed three presentations and […]
The Three Poisons
May 17, 2016 by
The three poisons or the three roots (of suffering) were the subject of Brother Phap Vu‘s dharma talk on Saturday, April 30, 2016 at the Earth Holder Retreat in the Deer Park Monastery. The three poisons are variously translated as shown in the following table (reading down) desire greed attraction hatred ill-will aversion ignorance illusion […]
Empty of What?
March 30, 2016 by
When Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh talks about the Buddhist concept of emptiness, he always asks the question, “Empty of what?” Much of the time the answer is “Empty of a separate existence.” This means that nothing exists in isolation without interaction with everything else. If something did, we would never be able to access […]
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