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Meaning of life ~ try this experiment
Premise: If we don’t remember death each day, we are bound to neglect what is actually important in life, our perspective will be skewwhiff. True or false? Please humor me by doing this experiment! :-)...
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What is a day for?
“There is more to life than its speed.” ~ Gandhi I’ve always liked this quote. Life is precious, and life is short. I don’t want it to go by in a blur. Everyone is pursuing happiness and freedom, and...
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Live life lightly, live it well
What does it mean to you to take, or seize, the essence of your human life? View from Cheesman Park I was just walking through my new leafy neighborhood, Capitol Hill, and into Cheesman Park, and once...
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What is the Meaning of Life?
Ermm … Everyone reading this most likely has a precious human life at the moment. Even comparing ourselves with other human beings, we are really very lucky. Today, if the whole world were shrunk to a...
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What is the point of training the brain!? ~ rebirth part 4
My grandfather lived to 100. He was a spiritual person, and he probably could have lived to 110 as he was immensely fit, but unfortunately he was run over by a car. During his last 6 weeks, spent in...
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Who do you want to be when you die? ~ rebirth part 6
When we gain insight into the continuum of our mind — and that death is the permanent separation of the mind and the body, not the death of consciousness — this realization expands our horizons and is...
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Good night, sweet Prince
U turn on the telly and every other story Is tellin’ U somebody died ~ Sign o the Times I wonder if celebrities everywhere are getting nervous?! But of course it was forever thus. None of us gets out...
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Just passin’ through …
Today I was wondering what people might want to do with my ashes, if anything at all. For the record, if any of you can be bothered, I would like them scattered in the lake at Madhyamaka Centre, Geshe...
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Everyone wants to be seen: observations from a Buddhist Gerontologist
A guest article. (Given that these strange COVID-19 times are making our elderly all around the world even more vulnerable, and that many are being kept behind closed doors for their own protection, I...
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The compassion cure
A guest article by a Buddhist gerontologist. I wrote Parts 1 and 2 of this blog while “coronavirus” was a new word appearing in a far-off land. Shrouded by an illusion of safety in my Brooklyn...
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Searching relief from tedium?
9 mins read Nine months into the pandemic, with at least 6 months to go before things return to whatever normal might mean by then, and life might be feeling a tad tedious – that is, marked by...
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The Tantric journey
The meditation we did in that last article — Highest Yoga Tantra: the quick path to enlightenment — was to provide a taste of what we can expect in Highest Yoga Tantra, where we purify our mind at its...
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Death: the high cost of living
Several friends and relatives have died in the last two months. Only yesterday my aunt Rachel died – if I had just a few words to describe her it would be as one of life’s innocents, generous almost to...
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The still point of the turning world
Just to quickly revisit the central theme of Everything Everywhere All at Once, ie, how kindness makes the world go round … the man sitting on the other side of the neuroscientist told us he was...
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