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...
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...
Samsara is like being stuck on a cosmic carnival ride you didn’t exactly sign up for. It seems fun at first, then you drop your cotton candy, and start feeling nauseous. But you can't get off the ride! The Ferris wheel keeps going around and you're stuck. So this...
Understanding Karma and Right View: A Path to Liberation Believing in the law of karma is part of Right View, which is one of the Eightfold Path. Right View is about seeing clearly. It's about understanding reality and knowing what brings happiness or suffering. The...