For more than 21 years, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has traveled the world teaching about the innermost nature of mind as understood by the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
It’s pouring with rain outside and my youngest daughter is in bed with a fever. I thought that we had escaped southern Brazil’s winter flu
Can the Dharma provide a framework of analysis for global conflicts? Can it provide a new paradigm for preventing war? During the time of the
“To study the way of enlightenment is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is
I’ve recently noticed how easily I fall into negative thinking, holding on to negative thoughts and letting go of positive ones. We all have this
The first teaching I received on the Buddhist view was the First Noble Truth—the Truth of Suffering. During my first years of studying Buddhism, I
“You feeling better?” She wasn’t, but I most certainly could have said something better. Through her tears and sniffles the otherwise confident and self-assured ma’am
The term “old people” is a stigma in contemporary Western society. Unless you are wealthy, famous or politically influential, it is a horrible title to
It is common knowledge that the Buddha taught that all conditioned things cause us to suffer. The fact that suffering is latent in our experience
The Buddha says he teaches only two things, namely, suffering and cessation of suffering. The Buddha saw that beings are experiencing various types of suffering
In classical Greek philosophy, the word eudemonia is translated as “flourishing,” a very special state of being that entails finding meaning, purpose, and satisfaction in one’s life
Each day our senses are bombarded with various experiences. As soon as we wake up a flood of information enters into our eyes and ears.
