We live in a world enchanted with DIY. From assembling flat-pack furniture to fixing your dishwasher with a YouTube tutorial, we love the feeling of figuring it out ourselves. When it comes to navigating the deep, often turbulent waters of our own minds, going it...
Imagine your friend gives you a lottery ticket. In this hypothetical situation, you’re like me, and you haven’t followed the jackpot rising to a billion dollars. You just stick the ticket in your pocket and forget about it. In fact, it’s likely the ticket will end up...
Practicing Self-Compassion makes us happier, more resilient, and less anxious. Have you heard of the practice W.A.I.T. Why am I talking? I didn't come up with it, but I've been using it quite a lot lately. It's such a handy reminder when you're about to say something...
Seeing all beings as having once been our mother in countless past lives is one of the most fundamental Buddhist beliefs. This belief leads to the development of universal compassion. In Buddhist practice, especially in the Mahayana tradition, we sometimes take a...
Dear Mothers, Thank you. No living being could exist without a mother. We need a father, too, but their contribution could mean that a father and their child have never even met. With technology, the father and mother may never meet! And so, mothers, we owe everything...
Understanding and practicing Buddha's teaching on Dependent Origination What if I told you that nothing exists on its own, not your favorite cup of coffee, not your stress, not even you (at least, not in the way you think)? In Buddhism, this idea isn’t just a...