Desire Creates Suffering It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our human experience. Sense-desire, on the other hand, is the grasping at pleasure or the avoidance of pain. This is what creates suffering—grasping and avoidance. – Dipa Ma, “Enlightenment in This […]

Delusion vs. Enlightenment That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things / is called delusion; / That the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self / is called enlightenment. – Dogen Zenji, “Wandering Clouds: The Poets of Ch’an Buddhism”

10 Important Things You Should Know about Happiness. Happiness begins with acceptance – acceptance of what was, acceptance of what is, and acceptance of what will and/or might be. By accepting, embracing and making peace with yourself, your life and the world around you, not only do you become a lot happier and more at […]

We have to remember to be HERE, wholeheartedly present and listening. When we listen we realize LOVE is speaking to us all the time. And, LOVE will speak through us to those we love! – Cheri Huber

Time and Space is where you chase things you pretend you don’t have – love, friends, and abundance – while worrying about things you pretend you do have – problems, challenges, and issues. Until one day, you happen to notice the prophetic powers of pretending. – Akashic Records

Good Anger Anger that is motivated by compassion or a desire to correct social injustice, and does not seek to harm the other person, is a good anger that is worth having. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama, “The (Justifiably) Angry Marxist” http://www.tricycle.com/blog/justifiably-angry-marxist Adapted from The Dalai Lama on What Matters Most: Conversations on Anger, […]