Meditation is a tool used to integrate (overcome feelings of separation) for the individual while Karma Yoga is the tool used to not only resolve interpersonal issues but to make us productive and successful in teams both at work and at play. Our drives for Automony...
Happiness or Bliss? Which would you choose: happiness, or 16 different kinds of bliss? Classic Buddhist teachings don’t address happiness; they do, however address 16 different categories of bliss. These explorers of consciousness were really paying attention! Every...
Anxiety, worry and fear are a part of everyday life, particularly in our fast-paced society and the realities of modern globalization. And they don’t help things! So what do we do to loosen the grip that they have on us and those around us? First we benefit from...
Quantum physics as well as tradition Buddhist philosophy teach us that nothing in the universe remains the same for even a second. Thus we know that everything we hold and cherish will also pass on and out of our lives, if only at death. This may feel frightening...
I dream, I hope, I work, I love, I play, I dream, I eat. These verbs are all about me; working, hoping, dreaming, loving, eating all continue, even when there is no ‘me’. Who is this ‘me’? Or is it a what? Is ‘me’ a person, a thing, an idea, a feeling? It’s all of...
