The essence of Buddhist Practice
What is the essence of Buddhist practice? What are we supposed to use the methods that Buddhism provide?
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December 17, 2021
Buddhas and beings
Explaining why both devotion towards Enlightened beings and compassion towards sentient beings are said to help support the path to complete and full Awakening...
July 7, 2020
The wake-up call
This is a historical and unique global situation, one we can use to practice compassion, care, empathy and act appropriately out of love, not out of fear. Contain the Coronavirus…
March 25, 2020
Social coherence
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]Social coherence or otherwise called empathy, compassion or loving kindness in the Buddhist context. This video points things that we know, giving them a new approach: how we feel…
June 3, 2016
Generating the Enlightened Heart
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Cultivating the Enlightened Heart is developpping Bodhicitta, the awakening of compassion and wisdom – the great compassionate wish for the wellbeing of all sentient beings, combined with the…
June 2, 2016
Pray for Paris – or maybe not…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]You may be thinking, Pray for Paris is a perfectly kind and compassionate phrase of support, and it is, but did you ever stop to seriously think about it? The Dalai Lama did and had some sensible advice for people… (more…)
November 19, 2015
Remembered Previous Lives
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…)
May 2, 2014
Trees communicate with each other
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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. (more…)
November 12, 2013
Beyond our differences
If we could feel the true closeness of others, all struggles and fights would immediately stop. After all, who in his right mind would hurt another if he experienced that person as part of himself? Well that’s exactly how it is! We are a field of energy and happiness and suffering experienced by any of us are experienced by all others. If we are open, the suffering of others gives rise to compassion (a deep sense of “you are like me and it hurts”), if not, we violently reject it. In both cases we do feel it. (more…)
April 16, 2012