"The Buddha beneath the Tree of Enlightenment (the Bo Tree) and Christ on the Holy Rood (the Tree of Redemption) are analogous figures, incorporating an archetypal World Savior, World Tree motif…

I had a wonderful tract about how blasphemy against ones former ideas of deity and the sacred was a necessary step for some indoctrinated Buddhists. All I can remember is it was something to do with …

Hey people, my names Chris and I'm finally taking the plunge and willing to throw myself at mindfulness and meditation.

Buddha says, give up desire because it is the cause of suffering. How does that translate in real life? A working person, for instance, should never seek promotion? A struggling actor shouldn't go to…

Well, all the mud slinging by right wing and left wing protestors are just making things worse by throwing their own personal issues into the flame, hard for them to admit alot of their anger are fro…

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If this illusory body, which I cling to as mine, is sick—let it be sick!

http://www.jackkornfield.com/2012/11/changing-my-mind-year-after-year/

To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

" The problem with paying too much attention to our emotional states is that we reinforce them by treating them as though they are real....If we practice from that place we create even more obst…