I remember once watching an interview of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the interviewer said, “You were twenty-four when you fled from your country and became a refugee. You haven’t been able to go back. You’ve overseen establishing a government in exile. You’ve... read more
What are the benefits of taking precepts? There are benefits for society because anytime any one of us restrains from even one negative action, there is that much less negativity put out into the world. Since we are all interdependent and influence each other so much,... read more
Each day, the most important thing for us to do is to develop a kind heart. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has pointed out that people of all religious faiths share this aspiration along with compassion and ethical conduct. Even some people who are not religious support... read more
Very often we get into a “poor me” mental state: “Poor me, this is wrong with my life; poor me, that’s wrong with my life. Everybody else has better opportunities than I do, everybody else can do more than I can… poor me.” Aside from our regular ignorance... read more
We should look at some of our wrong conceptions, the various levels of our wrong conceptions, our expectations, and our rules of the universe. One of the misconceptions where we get really stuck is to believe things that by their very nature cannot bring us lasting... read more
