Reading Archive (Acceptance)
You Carry Your Wound
You carry your wound. With the ego, your whole being is a wound. And you carry it around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is...
Five Prayers
In gratitude, I bow to all generations of ancestors in my blood family. I see my mother and father, whose blood, flesh, and vitality are...
Beauty of the Mosaic
For as long as I recall having memory, I've found mosaic incredibly mesmerising. Alongside the increasing presence of grey hair on my...
Reality Poses No Danger
Things that are real pose no danger to the mind. The real dangers in the mind are our delusions, the things we make up, the things we use...
Fueled By Love
When a parent sees their child is about to be attacked by someone, it doesn't matter how peaceful and calm they...
A Portrait in Patience
Patience they said was a virtue. Only I wasn't ever quite sure why. I always saw her as a rather plain-faced girl with a sweet smile....
Becoming Master Artists
We do not have to accept ourselves as we are. Genetic code or brain bio-chemistry, astrological configurations or Tarot readings, early...
It All Goes Wrong Anyway
Wherever you live -- in a monastery, in a city, or on a quiet tree-lined street -- you will always experience problems and difficulties...
A Whole New Dimension Of Love
Everything is flowing. And this flow isn’t made up only of external things. It includes relationships, too. Some relationships last...
Forgiveness & Your Life's Unfinished Business
As awareness becomes yet subtler, able to discern even the muffled whispers of the mind, we are confronted with what a dying...
Space To Heal
Healing requires space. As we plow through day to day life, we dream about finding a time when there will be space to heal,...
Willing to Experience our Suffering
A few weeks ago someone gave me an interesting article on suffering, and the first part of it was on the meaning of the word...
Learning to Suffer More Effectively
Psychological grasping is your main source of suffering, not the physical sensations in your legs -- that is to say, how much you...
The Dark Side of the Sacred
Emotions live in the body. It is not enough simply to talk about them, to be a talking head. We need to focus our attention on emotions...
Weakness in Others
"A weakness found in someone is yet another in ourselves." It can be rather easy to find a weaknesses or pass some judgement on others,...