Tag: dhamma

The price of peace

How much would you pay to have peace in your life? And I’m not saying just a moment or day of peace, but genuine overall peace in your life for the rest of your time on this earth. Can we…

The deconstruction of love

With Tina Turner singing in my head, “What’s love got to do with it”, I decided to attempt to dissect love and what it truly is in a factual sense. Initially, I know that most people would say that love…

I am really pissed off!

Yes, you have offended me without any justification. I have done nothing at all wrong, and you have no right to treat me this way. Now I have such strong ill-will towards you and so many disturbing emotions. And I…

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…

The understanding of no self

Thanks in no small part to a wonderful dhamma talk recently given by Bhante Sankichcha of the Great Lakes Buddhist Vihara, I finally feel as though I have an understanding of anatta (no self). Strangely, as much as I’ve studied…