Of course, we all want to be happy! It’s universal and legitimate. We seek happiness in everything we do – why should following a spiritual path be any different? Maybe the question is: do we seek temporary happiness and relief from suffering or are we aiming… (more…)
In this BBC documentary, the possibility of remembering past lives is discussed. Some children can remember exact & verifiable details of their prior life they never could have come to know in this their current child life. These details can be objectively and independently confirmed. (more…)
UBC Foresty Professor Suzanne Simard is a forest ecologist whose research focuses on how organisms living in soil – like fungi – help trees establish and grow. Some fungi live…
Endless streams of rushing people Quickly moving at frantic pace Minding the gap Minding their phones Minding their kindles and their books But not minding their own mind at all.…
Tuesday, 15th October, 2013
“Meditation and Mind Training” with Tsering Paldron (more…)
Saturday, 12 October, 2013
“The Perfection of Meditation”with Tsering Paldron
Retreat day The Perfection (Paramita) of Meditation (more…)
There is a poem written by Portia Nelson – and actually a book too – called: “There is a hole in my sidewalk”. The poem talks about how we fall into the same patterns over and over, until we gain awareness and discover we have the freedom to choose something else.
Tibetan teacher Chögyam Trungpa once opened a class by drawing a V on a large white sheet of poster paper. He then asked those present what he had drawn. Most responded that it was a bird. “No,” he told them. “It’s the sky with a bird flying through it.”
Mind, on the ordinary level, is obscured by concepts, different states of thinking and preconceptions, and so on. In order to recognise the essential nature of the mind, therefore, we have to peel off these different layers and clear away these obscurations. Then we shall see the true face of our own minds.
In London next Saturday, 13 October - Bodhicharya London Finding deep stillness inside the busy mind Inside our frantic mind lies the deepest, unsoiled serenity. By not following or fighting…