What is the “right” way to relate or associate with our friends and loved ones? Is it codependently, independently, or interdependently? Or perhaps it is something completely different. I will share a brief excerpt from the Paticca-samuppada-vibhanga sutta: “And what…
The more I continue to practice and study the dhamma, the more I am coming to realize that there is nothing to talk about. Even one of the five precepts I have taken states “I undertake the precept to refrain…
Many of you may have heard or used the expression that a person is like an onion, with many layers. Remove one layer only to reveal another deeper and deeper layer. But what happens when we remove all the layers,…
The easy answer to this would be the cessation of suffering. But cessation can be a pause or interruption in suffering, and not the permanent elimination. But don’t each of us appreciate and enjoy moments of happiness that are free…
Well, at least the pre-enlightened Buddha anyway. I suffer, I practice, I have determination. Very much of the same qualities and difficulties that the Buddha had. In fact, probably all of the same ones. After all, Buddha was just a…