Yesterday I got a request from a magazine to reprint something that I had written. The name of the magazine was Me Magazine. It was its first edition. I checked their website and saw that it is a magazine targeted at women aged 40 and…

Developing the Four Immeasurables is a prelude to doing the taking-and-giving meditation. Before we can do taking-and-giving, we must have love, compassion, joy, and equanimity for all beings. We practise them so that we have an attitude of…

Trust is a very important thing in our relationships with friends and family. One important way of creating trust and good relationships is to always be very truthful in our communication with others, without lying or distorting things or deliberately trying to…

There are several things in the monastic form where we show respect, and there are, in general, several things in Buddhism where we do that. It is very easy for our Western mind to think that this is all about hierarchy, authority, and oppression, and…

Sometimes our mind works in such a way that it takes us quite a long time to let go of something. We may have a certain interpretation of a certain event for a long time and feel hurt or angry about it. Or when our mind is holding onto something strongly, even…