I find today that by taking my concerns and difficulties to bed with me last night only kept them close to me when I awoke this morning. I suppose I thought that my acceptance of my circumstances would allow these…
Going to bed with dread
Tag: Bhante Sujatha
A God of sadness
As I was looking through my stats for this Blog today, two glaring statistics jumped out at me. The first one is that the number one search term that brought people to this site is the word “sadness”. The second…
Check yourself before you wreck yourself
How far have you come in your practice? Have been studying or practicing Buddhism for days, weeks, months or years? Perhaps you simply consider yourself a “breathe-ist” and not a Buddhist. Regardless of which one applies to you personally, I…
Forgive and forget?
Recently my amazing Son-in-law, Jared Edwards, wrote a Blog post about the subject of forgiveness and the idea of forgetting it. One of his points being that if one truly forgets it, it opens the possibility of becoming someone’s doormat.…
Where are the teachings?
In most religions, there are a set of rules and guidelines that usually involve faith in the unseen and unknown. But in the Buddhist tradition, there are no rules as such, and no faith as one would typically think of…