One of the members of Wildmind's community reminded me recently of an article, "The Surprising Downsides of Empathy," that appeared…
Buddhism is full of lists: the three trainings, the four foundations of mindfulness, the five skandhas, the eightfold path, the…
The book’s title describes a daunting challenge. For our aging to have the blessing of bringing us wisdom – who…
The weekend that my wife told me she wanted a divorce, she took our kids away so that she could…
As living organisms anxious about our existence, we’re all naturally rigged to want to manage our lives with the goal…
Everyone messes up. Me, you, the neighbors, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, King David, the Buddha, everybody. It’s important to acknowledge…
Someone asked me: I keep hearing about mindfulness where one needs to pay attention to everything. But I am a…
One of my favorite stories took place a number of decades ago when the English had colonized India and they…
Are you doing too much? You may have seen the old Mickey Mouse movie in which he is working at…
The other day I wrote about "Idiot Compassion," which I described as '...avoiding conflict, letting people walk all over you,…