Songs of Suffering, or Why Sad Songs Can Help Us in Our Practice
Melancholia and sadness come from our awareness of impermanence, and how attachment will ultimately lead to suffering.
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Category: Empower Me
Renunciation, Perfectionism, and Joyful Liberation
Who wants a dukkha pie? Nobody. At least not us Buddhists.
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Loving-Kindness for the Weeks That Are Too Much
Research on loving-kindness meditation has linked it with more positive emotion and a greater sense of connection with others. But you don’t need a study to feel what happens in your chest when you think of someone you love. That softening is the whole point.
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The Finger on the Glass
When I look back at my younger self, convinced that the right words could change the world, I can see how much of my own language was a performance. Articulate, passionate, and filtered.
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Are You Enlightened?
Some Buddhist traditions are not helpful in regards to being comfortable with our meditation experiences. Especially those that insist that they belong to an unbroken chain of highly enlightened individuals whose experience has to be matched if you want to belong.
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