Hope is Hopeless
Can we genuinely live a life of not hoping for something?
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Author: The Tattooed Buddha
Talking with Lee Carlson, Author of A Single Excellent Night: A Man, a Mentor & a Moment in Time
A Single Excellent Night weaves together awakening experiences and pivotal realizations from the first four years of a 15-year apprenticeship Lee Carlson spent with Peter Matthiessen.
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In the Forge: Where Buddhism Fails (and Sometimes Works)
In my darker moments, I sometimes wonder if Buddhism in the West has become a plaything for middle class dilettantes, a sizeable number of whom seem to prefer to turn their back on current realities—because they can.
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The Dharma Follows You Everywhere
I learned that stillness is not about comfort. It’s about honesty. And in that honesty, for the first time, I began to see that what I’d really been running from all along wasn’t the law—it was myself.
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When Words Stop Being Mental Plasticine
I was suffering because it’s in the nature of life to suffer: illness happens, pain happens, death happens, even the groovy things like dub reggae, samosas and Kung Fu Panda can’t hide the fact that life sucks, if you allow it to. The Second Noble Truth, with all the semantic shenanigans associated with what dukkha really means, is likewise very simple.
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