Today I sat with a friend, having lunch and chatting. She’s a very spiritual person and as our conversation trundled along it moved into deeper and more spiritual matters as has happened before. She knows I attend a local Buddhist monastery and so she asked me, ‘What do Buddhists do to alleviate suffering in the […]
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If you’ve read any of the previous posts you’ll have picked up on references to present moment awareness as being of key importance to developing your inner life. I’m not the only one saying this, two and a half thousand years ago the Buddha was saying much the same and his successors and other teachers […]
I wonder how many of us would class ourselves as just ‘getting by’. We’re not really happy, but we have good days and some less good ones. But real happiness seems to be out of reach. Maybe we long for that perfect career or maybe retirement. Maybe we want more money or a role in […]
I’ll say at the start that this post is a little ‘heavy’, so if you’re not up to having your mind challenged a bit then you may well be asleep by the third paragraph. However, I do think it’s important and offer it as a reflection in the hope you may find it of some […]
Like all the posts here, I would like you to consider what’s being said not as an edict but a reflection. I’m not trying to say, ‘It’s like this’ or ‘you should do that’. You have to find your own truth. All I offer are some perspectives on life in the hope they might be […]
First of all a brief summary of what enlightenment, nibbana, moksha actually means: The most important aspect to remember is that the personal self no longer exists once this realisation or change occurs. Not wishing to split hairs but strictly speaking even calling it a realisation is inaccurate – there’s no-one to realise, and also […]
There may not be much within Western culture that will encourage us to do so but every now and then each of us asks the question: what is it that I really want in life? Okay, so it’s a biggie and there are probably lots of answers, some short term, some are long term life […]
I walked today at lunchtime along my usual route. My stroll took me past the place where my awakening occurred eleven days ago. What is remarkable since that day is that I now walk through the world completely without fear. This would have been an impossibility before. There was always something to fear: an awkward […]
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