Today let us think about the benefits of cherishing others. When we cherish others, others benefit, but the benefit is not just theirs, the benefit comes back to us. We all share an environment together. When we help others in the environment, it makes the…

Precepts are very precious because if we are going to actualise the complete meaning of the Buddha’s teachings in our minds and really transform our minds, we have to start with the basics, which are subduing our harmful verbal and…

When I lived in Singapore in 1987, the man who was the benefactor of the first book I ever published called “I Wonder Why” told me he was fine with generating bodhicitta at the beginning of meditations. However, he was reluctant at the conclusion to…

During the first good snowstorm of the season, I like to think that the snowflakes are little Chenrezigs falling. When we do the Chenrezig practice, we imagine light from Chenrezig coming into us or we are sending out light to awaken others and…

It is quite interesting to have an awareness of dependent arising throughout the day. Since we are trying to control the universe, we look at things and think, “It is out there with its own essence, and I am in here all by myself with…