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Life, death, and fear. Nowadays, there is not only a spike in the incidence of COIVD  infections ( and resulting mortal death ), but there i...

Mine; Not yours. “To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by...

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves , and not twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love onl...

The fusion of two worlds Sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross wrote a poem that narrates the journey of th...

Seeing you seeing me. The President’s daughter Ivanka Trump says, “Perception is more important than reality.”  Obviously, a distincti...

Sixty-four years ago a television game show began running here in the U.S. The show was called To Tell The Truth and involved three challeng...

Meet Nagarjuna Our world is drowning in a sea of rights vs. wrongs, governments trapped in ideological deadlocks, conflicts and wars, b...

If it isn’t patently clear by now, “my way” is the highway to somebody else, who considers “our way” the flip side of “their way.” Wouldn’...

The depths of consciousness The Buddhist concept of 9 levels of consciousness provides a great template for a life of  transformative chang...

In Buddhist thought, a poisonous monster lives inside each of us and it has three characteristics— greed, anger, and delusion   (or ignor...