Some years ago I noticed an odd thing; a lot of the Buddhists I knew (including myself) didn’t talk much…
Metaphors can be traps. We can end up taking them too literally. The point of a metaphor is to help…
Enlightenment used to be something of a dirty word in the west, or at least it used to be considered…
It has taken me an age to write this, and I have only just realized why. Pema delivers such ‘big’…
When life pulls the rug out from under us, we have a choice. We can either look backward at it…
The goal of Buddhist practice is "bodhi" or "Awakening." Waking up fully to reality may yet be far off, but…
A common misquotation of a saying by a famous French writer gives Bodhipaksa pause for thought: are both the misquotation…