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Once a Buddha, always a Buddha
4.5 mins read Sometimes people get discouraged with their Tantric practice, thinking it’s beyond them and they should stick to Sutra. But I think Tantra can be pretty straightforward, especially if we...
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Right here right now
8.5 mins read Meditation is now marketed as an antidote to everything from anxiety and depression to poor sleep and workplace inefficiency. These are tangible benefits into which it is worth investing...
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Deep healing
8 mins & a video An old friend of mine, a naturopath, has had a lot of success in healing people simply by telling them — confidently — to drop down into their hearts and feel they’re experiencing...
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Judge not …
7.5 mins read Our Buddha nature is likened to a golden nugget in filth for it can never perish, it is utterly indestructible. I find it pretty inspiring to think about that. No matter how disgusting a...
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Toward an empowered sense of self
5.5 mins read. Buddha is not saying that we don’t have faults and limitations because of course we do (well I do); and we need to identify what these are if we are to have any hope of getting rid of...
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The meditation game changer
A guest article. After great conversations with this long-term meditator and friend, I requested him to write an article on this subject. He kindly obliged. Hope you like it as much as I do. 8.5 mins...
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How to overcome toxic self-criticism
7 mins read. It all starts with changing our experience. If we want to change our actions or behaviors, we need to change our intentions. If we want to change our intentions or wishes, we need to...
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Living beings have no faults
Guest article co-written in Arizona by one Black and one white Kadampa. Do you sometimes feel that the problems of our world are insurmountable? We feel confused about the way forward. What are the...
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Keeping the hope alive
I was wondering recently if Dharma is what comes out when our Buddha nature is manifest. For example, when someone speaks directly from the heart and to the heart about love, compassion, equality,...
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Identifying with our Buddha nature
8 mins read. A question … when you’re not identifying with your Buddha nature, what are you identifying with? Over the decades I’ve observed a couple of elements that seem to make all the difference in...
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Buddha nature: manifesting our limitless potential
6.5 mins read. In this last article, Identifying with our Buddha nature, I suggested why it’s a good idea to identify with our Buddha nature from the very outset of our meditation practice and just...
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Buddha nature: using wisdom to identify ourself correctly
9.5 mins read. Do you agree that identifying with our limitless Buddha nature is the start of identifying ourself correctly? As Venerable Geshe Kelsang explains in The Oral Instructions of the...
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Buddhism and mental health
The seventh way to foster resilience is to find a way to laugh at our own adversity. To see the absurdity and true nature of samsara and to take it less seriously or feel less threatened by it....
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Buddhism as therapy and beyond
A house mate was telling me today how concerned he is about his younger brother, aged 22 – why? Because he is suffering from anxiety, along with a surprising number of his friends. A couple of weeks...
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How can I blame you?
Buddhist meditation is said to be the path that leads from joy to joy, culminating in the spontaneous great joy of Tantric completion stage and full enlightenment. Sometimes we might think we have to...
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Setting ourselves up for success
I’ve been watching a couple of gentle dramas unfold on the other side of this lake. First up, a group of schoolchildren skipping along laughing – such potential, and with their whole future ahead of...
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One nice way to meditate on rejoicing
When you are dreaming at night, do you miss your waking world? Do you even remember it? We are so invested in this life and all its details whenever we are awake, but it goes away every night and we...
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