Autumn. I feel such peace as I look out of the big picture window in my apartment at the blanket of colour that greets me. I can actually hear the branches of the trees, laden with brilliant yellow and red…
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A Simple Act of Kindness
“It is helpful to remember that sometimes the most powerful medicine we can offer for suffering of any kind is simply kindness. It says: ‘You’re not alone. I see you. I hear you. I am with you.’ Even if it’s only…
Tagged with: Buddhism, Caring, Christmas, Compassion, Kindness, Spiritual, Spirituality
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Community
One morning I was at the Library bookstore donating a couple of books. I noticed that the three people helping out at the store were all volunteers. I asked them about volunteering there. They were of course very helpful giving…
Tagged with: Caring, Community, Compassion, Hospice, Meditation, neighborliness, oneness, trust
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Posted in Interbeing
What about Jane?
“We begin in dreams. Then we wake up. The world shrinks to the size of our own little selves. We become egotistic. The isolated, skin-bound, brain-bound, self-feeling being that has been growing within us since we recognized ourselves…
Tagged with: Anger, Buddhism, Compassion, Ego, oneness, perception, Spiritual, Spirituality
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The Dress
Did you ever have one of those “aha” moments, you know, the kind where everything changes for you? Maybe you get out of yourself a little bit, long enough to look at the world through a different lens.…
Tagged with: Buddhism, Compassion, Ego, insight, Love, Mom, Mother, perception, Spiritual, Spirituality
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Legacy
As the earth gives us food and air and all the things we need May I give my heart to caring for all others until all attain awakening For the good of all sentient beings May loving kindness be born…
Tagged with: Abuse, Buddhism, Compassion, insight, Meditation, Mothers Day, Prayer, Spirituality
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Posted in Buddhism, Shared posts
A Slow Learner
One day my teacher, Venerable Karma Yeshe Wangpo said to me: “You should teach”. I didn’t. Some weeks passed. Again he said: “You should teach”. Still I didn’t. I guess I am a slow learner. For two whole years he…
Tagged with: Buddhism, Compassion, Creator, Ego, God, insight, Spiritual, Spirituality
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What About My Retreat?
The following is an article that I wrote, published in Buddhadharma: The practitioner’s quarterly magazine, Winter 2013 edition. I thought it worth sharing: Maureen Connor (Samten Wangmo) was ordained as a lay teacher in the Tibetan Karma Kagyu tradition in…
Tagged with: Buddhadharma magazine, Buddhism, Buddhist magazine, Caring, Community, Compassion, Gratefulness, Meditation, Retreats, Sangha, Spirituality, Tibet
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Imprints we make: Our thoughts, words, and actions affect us all. Remembering we inter-are.
The following story illustrates beautifully what this blog is about: I was working at Ten Thousand Villages Nonprofit Fair Trade Store one day. A middle aged man and a boy of about seven years old came in. Smiling,…
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