Appreciation: The Key to a Happy Life – Purpose Fairy

Appreciation: The Key to a Happy Life – Purpose Fairy.

▶ Medicine Buddha Mantra (with words) – YouTube

▶ Medicine Buddha Mantra (with words) – YouTube.

▶ Joanna Macy & Ajahn Sulak Sivaraksa: Buddhist Peace Fellowship Keynote Event – YouTube

Joanna Macy gave an inspiring call to spiritual action, along with Ajahn Sulak in a talk last Friday night. She mentions, among other things, the importance of study groups in addressing the 3 poisons and acknowledges practices borrowed from Thay. smiles, david nelson ▶ Joanna Macy & Ajahn Sulak Sivaraksa: Buddhist Peace Fellowship Keynote Event […]

World Peace Must Develop from Inner Peace

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is the manifestation of human compassion. – Dalai Lama

What is the Spiritual Life?

In the Spring, 2013 issue of Inquiring Mind, Pico Iyer was asked, “What is the spiritual life?” Part of Pico Iyer’s answer was, “…my sense (or prejudice) has always been that a spiritual life is whatever brings the clarity and stillness, the sharpened awareness of the mountaintop into the rush and confusion and congestion of […]

Bodhi Mind

This Buddhist prayer comes from “The Gate of Sweet Nectar,” translated by Bernie Glassman Roshi. He joined with Krishna Das to talk and sing about how the prayer relates to the Hindu chant, Hanuman Chalisa. The bodhi mind is the mind that can awaken. As I wrote previously, “The Buddha taught that everyone has “bodichitta” […]

6 Unconventional Secrets of Happy People – Purpose Fairy

6 Unconventional Secrets of Happy People – Purpose Fairy.

5 Questions to Ask At the Dinner Table

These words of wisdom come from Dr. Anil Gupta through Mindvalley. I am happy to share this with you and your children. Dr. Gupta suggests 5 questions to ask at the dinner table. Your relationships, above all else, determine how happy you feel on a day-to-day basis. The quickest and most effective way of improving […]

5 Quesstions to Ask at the Dinner Table

Vipassana Meditation Day 3

The video in this article is from S. N. Goenka’s Dhamma Discourses on Vipassana Meditation Day 3. This follows after the Vipassana Meditation Day 2 and Vipassana Meditation Day 1 that we presented on June 30, 2014 and July 20, 2014, respectively. In the video from the first day, we learned that awareness of breathing […]