A Buddhist perspective on my personal addictions I don’t honestly know if the Buddha ever taught about addictions directly, but he certainly did teach about defilements and attachments. The Pali word kilesa means mental states that cloud the mind and…
Excerpt from the Maha Mangala Sutta – The Glorious Sutta (translation and Commentary by Dr. R.L. Soni revised by Bhikkhu Khantipalo) In life, one is plagued by desires; in Nibbana, all desires are extinguished and all clingings are nullified. In…
What kind of insurance policy do you have? Most religions have some sort of belief about a life after death. And of course, our actions in this life will decide what the afterlife is like for us. But is this…
Which way did you come in? Ok, I am saying that tongue-in-cheek of course. But it leads me into a discussion about helping and caring for others. And recently there have been a lot of intra-Family situations that have generated…
This flu season continues to prove to be one of the worst ever, and unfortunately I am participating personally quite unenthusiastically. Still, there has been a great benefit to this in how many things I am learning through observation of…