In the opening words to his book “The Road Less Traveled,” the late psychiatrist M. Scott Peck says: Life is…
Feeling both the world and myself these days, one phrase keeps calling: lived by love. Explicitly, this means coming from…
Although Buddhist meditation was originally practiced mostly by celibate monks and nuns, who were not only forbidden from having sex…
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings: “To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.” What does love mean,…
The specific meaning of “dana” is giving, which is related to the quality of “caga” (in Pali), or generosity. The…
Everyone messes up. Me, you, the neighbors, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, King David, the Buddha, everybody. It’s important to acknowledge…
Love tends to join and hate to separate, but joining is not the same as love, and separation is not…
On my son Narayan’s sixth birthday, I gave him an ant farm. He spent hours watching with fascination as the…
Last night, stressing about undone tasks, I glanced in a mirror and saw my t-shirt, with its picture of a…
Sophie Donnelly, Express: It has been used to combat depression, stress and over-eating. Now a new book says this meditation…