When Aretha Franklin sang of respect she touched upon a deeply felt human need. Our desire to be respected and valued by our peers...

I believe in the power of love and the power of letting-go and the power of mindfulness: passive, and centered, and spontaneous.

Just as one can not step into the same stream twice for it is ever changing and as such is NOT the same stream twice; likewise a Lama...

What is it that fills us with rage, or fear, or sorrow? How could it always change? How could it NOT be that which defines...

The Buddha taught the seven enlightenment factors. Rather than merely enumerating them in a manner cold, academic, and pseudo...

This Lama has NOT come to debate trivialities with the self-important… For if one is NOT eager to receive my teachings THEN...

It has been my sad experience that the more abuse one suffers in childhood be it: verbal, or physical, or sexual; the more difficulty...

Come, let us consider how the duality of pushing and pulling could influence our experience of compassion and love. Our brain stems...

Chasing after creative inspiration is far too much like screaming at your cat and expecting him to come out from hiding under your couch...

As Buddhism evolved over the centuries and became Mahayana some things were subtracted and some things were added...

The path of mastering the Buddha’s teachings is NOT a sprint BUT a stroll. At first content yourself to meditate for five minutes every mor

The Buddha did NOT teach concentration: rigid, active and controlling… …but rather he taught mindfulness: flexible, and passive, and...

Mindfulness meditation or Sati Bhavana (if you prefer Pali) is very old. Developed more than twenty five centuries ago, it is NOT...

Let us NOT confuse concentration with mindfulness for... concentration: active and contrived stimulates our sympathetic nervous system...

The goal of meditation is NOT to prevent us from feeling certain emotions for that would be the metaphysical equivalent of a lobotomy...

Upon the Buddha’s path when our mindfulness like a small bird alights gently upon the thorn bush of painful thought we can harness its...

If those of us driven by compassion do NOT speak out in the political arena then the needs of: the many, the downtrodden...

In ancient Greece Aesop told the tale of a wolf determined to devour a lamb. More clever than he was swift the predator...

Why do I use the phrase “the Buddha,” instead of simply saying “Buddha?” It is a silly pseudo-intellectual affectation? Or could it be...

If our mindfulness meditation does not at times bring to our awareness that which makes us feel a little uncomfortable or embarrassed...