abundance

When you feel like you’re “not enough”

One slice of the pie of life feels relaxed and contented. And then there is that other slice, in which…

December 15, 2012

Do all you can, with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.

One of the strangest and most meaningful experiences of my life occurred when I going through Rolfing (ten brilliant sessions…

January 9, 2012

The art of finding abundance in frugal times

In the metta sutta, the discourse on loving kindness, the Buddha teaches us how to be "skilled in goodness and…

January 4, 2012

How to be rich and happy (whatever that means)

Writing a book entitled How To Be Rich and Happy means rather unsurprisingly I regularly get asked by interviewers, “What…

December 17, 2010

Dazzling treasures of the heart

Karunachitta introduces us to Ratnasambhava, the Buddha of abundance, and issues a challenge: Dare we discover the extent of our…

August 27, 2008

True wealth…

Although the Buddha encouraged his householder disciples to create wealth, he also repeatedly pointed out the relative worth of outer…

August 22, 2008

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn: “It’s not what we have that constitutes our abundance, but what we appreciate.”

The words "abundance" and "spirituality" may not seem to go hand in hand but, Bodhipaksa argues, mindfulness, properly seen, is…

August 20, 2008