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Dispelling the Darkness

For example, just as the darkness that has accumulated over 1,000 eons is dispelled by the illumination of one lamp or one torch, in the… Read More »Dispelling the Darkness

Boundless Freedom

Though the personification of Death is vivid in the Tibetan imagination, we notice at once that it is not Yama [the “Lord of Death”] himself that… Read More »Boundless Freedom

Video: Prioritizing the Happiness of Animals

Start of meditation: 00:14 Start of commentary: 15:04

The Doing

Putting away the dishes, drawing up a business strategy, planning a trip — what is more important: the doing or the result that you want… Read More »The Doing

Mirrors

I have mentioned that others can be mirrors in which we better view ourselves. As we care for others and extend ourselves to them, we… Read More »Mirrors

Awakening

The awakened are few and hard to find.Happy is the house where a person awakes. Buddhafrom TheDhammapada

Emptiness

Women Run Better (The Sonnet)

Men only inherit the world,Women give birth to the world.If women can birth the world,Women can run the world(far better than men). History reveals, war… Read More »Women Run Better (The Sonnet)

No Such Thing as “Nothing”

This ultimate end of everything, this diametric opposite of all, is nothing in itself. And yet we think of nothing as something. Clearly, “nothing” is… Read More »No Such Thing as “Nothing”

Black Elk Speaks

Hear me, four quarters of the world — a relative I am!Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that… Read More »Black Elk Speaks