“Nobody loves me!” It is a big one we tell ourselves. “Nobody loves me!” Is that true or not? I think people love us. Our friends love us. Our pets love us. Sometimes we get into a mental state where we cannot see how much other people loved us, but they still love... read more
Suffering is defined in three different ways. The “ouch” suffering is the most common. The second kind of suffering is the suffering of change. I really like this thing that is happening right now, and I start grabbing onto it. Right away it is not so much fun anymore... read more
Here we are together at the breakfast table, blown by the winds of karma. It is not by accident, it is not predestined, and it is not under somebody’s master plan. It is due to causes and conditions, and specifically due to our previous actions, that we find ourselves... read more
Don Wackerly, one of our Dharma friends whom some of us had been writing to for several years was executed in Oklahoma yesterday. How do you rejoice and be sad at the same time, which is actually possible? Being his pen pal for over the past three years, one of the... read more
There is a close relationship between a happy mind and keeping good ethical conduct. It is important to keep our mind happy when we are practising the Dharma and keeping ethical conduct helps us to do just that. When we have good ethical conduct, there is no guilt or... read more
