Tag: Bhante Sujatha

You can only hurt yourself

So I asked a friend recently, “why do you say things just to hurt me?”. Bhante Sujatha was standing nearby, and said “Nobody can hurt you, you can only hurt yourself”. This was kind of like a gut punch to…

Hospital incubator desperatley needed

As Bhante Sujatha of the Blue Lotus Temple is preparing for his annual trip to Sri Lanka, he is also planning his second charitable hospital project, targeted towards mothers and newborn babies. The maternity ward in Sri Lanka has forty…

So what happens next?

OK, so I sat down and did my meditation, but now I have to deal with regular life. Life off of the cushion, and outside of meditation. This was actually a question that was brought up by a Sangha member…

Observing the mind

Observing the mind sounds like something we all do constantly. But I have come to see that this is far from true. Simply because your mind is active and full of constantly changing thoughts and emotions, does not make one…