Mahāyāna Buddhism emphasizes compassion, and yet it portrays awakened beings who look anything but peaceful and loving. The best-known of…
A few weeks ago my partner and I went to a pro-Democracy rally a couple of miles down the road.…
This is one of a series of articles where I’ve been mythbusting things people “know” about the Buddha. These myths…
Someone wrote to me recently and asked two questions, which boiled down to: Did the Buddha teach self-love? Is loving…
Many people "know" that that the Buddha "was born a Hindu." But this, like the ideas that he was a…
Just as virtually any book about the Buddha and his teachings tells us that he was a prince (the first…
Many Americans like to "do" a Scottish accent. These attempts all sound the same, but none of them are particularly…
It's early January, and many people who made New Year's resolutions are already going "Oops!" as they realize they've already…
The Buddha said that it was possible to dislodge unhelpful thoughts (those that make us suffer unnecessarily) with the use…
One of the things that struck me as odd when I first encountered the Buddha’s teachings was the terms he…