A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. ~ Mary Poppins For me, loving kindness is the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down. And in my practice, often it may seem difficult to take my medicine.…
Take your medicine
Tag: Bhante Sujatha
Putting out the fires in my mind
Bhante Sujatha’s recording of “Putting Out the Fires in your mind” was such a powerful inspiration from the very first time I heard it. But now, years later, I think it has gained even greater value and lessons for me.…
W.M.D.’s
No not Weapons of Mass Destruction, but Wisdom, Meditation and Determination. In a sense, I suppose these are weapons of destruction. The destruction of delusion, suffering, dogma’s and seperateness. Bhante Sujatha was the one who taught me that “bhavana” is…
When the student is ready
There is an old Buddhist proverb that says “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear”. For a long time now, I have believed that this was the case when I finally met Bhante Sujatha a few years ago…
Three sides of the coin
More and more each day, I realize that every situation and circumstance have two ways in which they can be viewed. Actually, a more mindful perspective might be that there are three ways; a positive, a negative, and a neutral…