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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Author: The Tattooed Buddha
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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Too Much Buddha Business
To my mind there’s something deeply immoral about a spiritual tradition reaching the West and screwing people for money.
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Milarepa and Buddhist Under-Achievers
I was on the point of abandoning Buddhism a few months ago. I’d hit a brick wall. Every time I sat down to meditate, I was flooded with anxiety. The mind seemed to take more pleasure in intrusive thoughts, fears I hadn’t felt for decades and an odd reluctance to even look at the cover of a book on Buddhism.
Read MoreWhen Meditation Retreats Go Wrong: Suicide, Meditation and What We Can Do (Jaqui’s Story)
Jaqui loved meditating and had been trying to get into a 10 day Goenka meditation retreat for awhile and when her name came up on the list to be able to go, she was very excited.
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