It's my birthday today, and it's unlike any I can remember from my now 63 years on this planet. It's…
My sister, Fiona, passed away last month, unexpectedly. Yes, she was being treated for cancer, and had been for several…
I lost my beloved orange cat Rusty last June. There’s something about a relationship with a pet that’s so different…
Recently a meditation student who's only just begun practicing wrote to say that she'd experienced a bereavement. She wondered if…
A woman on the Triratna Buddhist Community's Urban Retreat, which this year focused on the theme of cultivating lovingkindness, or…
The great Tibetan yogi Milarepa spent many years living in isolation in a mountain cave. As part of his spiritual…
I've had more people asking me about the "near enemy" of compassion. So here goes... The "near enemy" is, by…
The Buddha taught that we spend most of our life like children in a burning house, so entranced by our…
People cope with the death of a loved one in different ways. A local woman is using mind-body therapies such…