Our whole life revolves around ourselves. We think of ourselves all the time. In particular, we get an identity from the social situations that we find ourselves in. A lot of the thought that revolves around ourselves centres on the topics of…

Every morning we come here and sit around this table to have breakfast. The external situation is pretty much the same. Sitting in the room with pretty much the same people at the same time of the day. Yet we notice from day to day how much our…

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…

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…

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 and…