Haven't been on in a good while, just due to both the difficulties and sometimes fullness of life. May everyone be doing very well! 'Still dealing with periodic flashbacks of the bad kind over here (thank-you Josée Bolduc), which still makes life more difficult than yea'd hope. Some steady improvement of a kind, at times, got juggered by some ( Read more... )

"The Great Eastern Sun is wakefulness and genuineness reflected in every aspect of our being. This realization brings a feeling of being a truly human being. Physically, psychologically, domestically, spiritually, you feel a gut sense of health and wholesomeness in your life, as if you were holding a solid brick of gold." -- “The Shambhala Warrior ( Read more... )

"Generally speaking, when we are too desirous of something in life, we’re less likely to attain it. Success seems to increase in direct proportion to the diminution of our desires. The same logic applies to our need for recognition. We might want to be appreciated and respected, but we have only a limited ability to influence how other people ( Read more... )

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Lion's Roar: On your second trip to Standing Rock, you attended in your capacity as a priest, along with other clergy. What can you tell us about that gathering and the common ground that was (or was not) found there ( Read more... )

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In 1947 I was in Hue, living and studying at the Buddhist Institute at Bao Quoc Temple, not too far from my root temple where I had been ordained into monastic life and where I normally lived. This was during the French Indochina War ( Read more... )

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If you kill out of anger,
Your enemies will be never-ending;
If you kill anger,
That will kill your enemies once and for all.In one of his past rebirths, the Buddha was a giant ocean turtle. One day, while he was far from any land, he saw that a ship carrying some merchants had been wrecked and was sinking. The merchants were about to drown, but ( Read more... )

Two years ago, at the age of 26, after years of floundering in the depths of a debilitating depression and trapped in an endless cycle of isolation, envy, and desire, I decided to seek inner freedom and happiness by treading the Buddhist path ( Read more... )