I've been practicing and teaching self-compassion for a long time now. My book on that topic, "This Difficult Thing of…
An elderly friend of mine once said to me, "Aging isn't for sissies." She was talking mainly about the physical…
I often hear Buddhists talking about "the unconditioned." I'm extremely suspicious of this expression. In fact think it's positively unhelpful,…
The concept of "free will" doesn't sit very easily with Buddhism. As far as I'm aware, it's considered an important…
I wanted to draw attention to a strange myopia that affects many people who comment on the Buddha's teachings about…
I lost my beloved orange cat Rusty last June. There’s something about a relationship with a pet that’s so different…
I find that a lot of the time, when people are cultivating kindness or compassion for a person they find…
Someone asked me the other day whether there was a contradiction between the Buddha saying that "life is suffering" and…
You might think that the antidote to self-hatred is liking yourself. But is that desirable, or even possible? We all…
The weekend that my wife told me she wanted a divorce, she took our kids away so that she could…