anicca (impermanence)

Mindfulness practice is good medicine

Mack Paul, The Norman Transcript: Buddhism is not a religion in the usual sense. There is not a God to…

October 6, 2014

Personalities are not fixed, and that’s great news

A mountaineering friend of mine used to remark that when he'd meet a rock or other obstruction while coming down…

September 24, 2014

“To be creative means to consider the whole process of life as a process of birth.” Eric Fromm

For social psychologist and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, creativity wasn't necessarily about bringing something — a poem, a symphony, a sculpture…

August 26, 2013

The three marks of human existence

When we turn our life over to the Dharma, we surrender to the teachings of the Buddha. What are those…

August 5, 2013

Cultivate only the path to peace

The Buddha was a man on a mission, and very single-minded. He said over and over again that his only…

July 19, 2013

Five remembrances for deep peace (Day 90)

In learning to experience deep peace in the face of impermanence, we need to consider not just our inner experience,…

July 11, 2013

There’s nothing to hold onto; there’s nothing to do any holding on. (day 89)

I've been explaining how the practice of upekkha bhavana isn't really about equanimity, and how upekkha itself isn't really equanimity,…

July 10, 2013

“There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control.” Marcus Aurelius (Day 80)

"There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control," wrote…

July 1, 2013

Even-mindedness and the two arrows (Day 79)

Upekkha, or even-minded love, is the fourth of the series of meditations we're looking at in our 100 Days of…

June 30, 2013

Appreciation and impermanence (Day 73)

Jack Kornfield, in his lovely Buddha's Little Instruction Book, says "The trouble is, you think you have time." He doesn't…

June 24, 2013