Not better. Just great companions for Buddha. (Image)

I believe there are two ways to look at 'no self'

Not even a contest.

I very strongly in my life want to feel good. I am on drugs that make me low energy and feel less alive and certainly uncomfortable. In my awareness I am always thinking of how I can get a good fee…

Not to pick nits, but what a person declares makes them happy can indeed be argued with from someone else's standpoint. It only works when that happiness is based on other principles of what most peo…

Not every day. Most of the time I do, but sometimes our scheduling interrupts it, or a kid gets up earlier than normal, or whatever. Sometimes I can manage to get away to the bedroom to sit for a whi…

You can give life to someone.

It's all fine and dandy to know that your cells and mind is changing... To know about quantum theory and compositional (dependent origination) organization of beings; we are meeting and changing fact…

Is it wrong not to have friends but only acquaintances, colleagues, etc.?

Not all people in jail are evil. That's understood. But neither should we assume that every criminal is a victim of the system or circumstances. Many of them are sadistic and brutal and would not hes…