The power of an open question

If we think about it, life resists definition. How can we truly know things that continuously change, are impossible to … More

Awareness is the key

Siddhartha was also trying to cut suffering at its root. But he was not dreaming up solutions such as starting … More

The method that the Buddha discovered is meditation. He discovered that struggling to find answers did not work. It was … More

Everybody is in a box. You think you’re a man, you think you’re American, Australian whatever. You think I used … More

Each of us has our own measure of pain. Sometimes the pain we suffer is great and obvious; sometimes it … More

I feel gratitude to the Buddha for pointing out that what we struggle against all our lives can be acknowledged … More

In a healthy response to pain and fear, we establish awareness before it becomes anger. We can train ourselves to … More

Buddha nature is not regarded as a peaceful state of mind or, for that matter, as a disturbed one either. … More

The Middle Way experience takes us altogether beyond thinking in extremes—beyond our usual assumptions about the world. It does not … More

If we face ourselves properly, fully, then we find that something else exists there, beyond facing ourselves. Something exists in … More

The method that the Buddha discovered is meditation. He discovered that struggling to find answers did not work. It was … More

When we have not learned to talk about feelings or even to be aware of them, our life remains entangled. … More

By learning to remain balanced in the face of everything experienced inside, one develops detachment towards all that one encounters … More

If we think about it, life resists definition. How can we truly know things that continuously change, are impossible to … More

It is often thought that the Buddha’s doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, … More