Not so much a question as much as seeking advice. I've vowed to quit smoking after nearly 30 years of doing it. In the past month I've been able to overcome a lot of bad stuff in my life. Today being…

Not unlike myself, the monkey is getting old and tired and does not jabber so much as she was once accustomed to do. He is also, perhaps, getting wiser - if I can use that term - and not everything…

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I was listening to transgender and the church i am transsexual female; I am not Abrahamic but a tibetan buddhist. Anyways they are talking at one point a female priest and a Sunday school teacher say…

Not to know is profound; to know is shallow. Not to know is internal; to know is external.

I was reminded this morning of this quote attributed to the Buddha:

I came across this contemplation today, we do not own anything, we just borrow, and I thought it was an interesting expression of impermanence. Because nothing lasts forever there is no such thing as…

I was sitting with several other students and my teacher, most of the weekend visitors to the Gompa had gone home and things were quiet after the hustle and bustle of the retreat that had finished on…

I came across this article in the Dutch Boeddhistisch Dagblad about a couple of buddhists who now live in Thailand:

I thought we could do with a thread about the Zen-ness of things, where people could drop off texts or quotes or images that reminded them of Zen, to serve as a source of inspiration and insight. So …